Sentence examples for repeal the amendment from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kennedy said he had introduced a bill to repeal the amendment.

Steve Stivers, the Republican candidate in an Ohio Congressional race, said he wanted to repeal the amendment, until his Democratic opponent, Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, made an issue of it, after which he seemed to back off.

At its most recent meeting, in September, the Judicial Conference of the United States, a group of 27 judges who make policy for the federal courts, voted unanimously to ask Congress to repeal the amendment.

The "yes" campaign to repeal the amendment claimed more than 66percentt of the vote on Friday, according to The New York Times.

LaPierre's promise was bolstered by then-NRA Governmental Affairs Director James Jay Baker, who promised that legislation had been drafted to repeal the amendment and was "expected to be introduced this session".

While it could be argued that Radnofsky is attempting to provide some cover to state legislators to simply repeal the amendment altogether, if so it's a rather weak by-product.

One, introduced by Representative Howard P. McKeon, Republican of California, would repeal the amendments.

In response, Congressional representatives have introduced several pieces of legislation that would either repeal the amendments or modify them to help people with small pensions.

Astonishingly, however, in the very next session a clause was slipped into the coroners and justice bill repealing the amendment.

But then came the rise of the Tea Party movement, whose members in several states have been calling for repealing the amendment — and making something of a political mess in the process.

Therefore, he said, "we recommend repealing" the amendment.