In particular, it objects to the restrictive amendments to Jordan's press law, which King Hussein endorsed in May.The government claims that it had to act to rein in the weekly tabloids whose "sensationalist" reporting was harming Jordan's image abroad, particularly in the Gulf countries, with which Jordan is trying to foster political and economic ties.
A House bill that could recapture an estimated 550,000 lost visas, sponsored by Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, has been moving slowly through the committee process despite the best efforts of members like Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, to sabotage it with ridiculously restrictive amendments.
The resignation of Taher Odwan, a veteran independent journalist turned minister, over these restrictive amendments is a huge red flag that should not be ignored.
It is so restrictive that amendments are required for local laws on mosquito control and litter enforcement.
Schwarzenegger won the legislative vote to put his measures on the ballot, but only after he compromised significantly with Democrats, replacing the spending cap that Republicans wanted with a much less restrictive balanced-budget amendment that would limit, though not prohibit, future borrowing.
The first major law, the Communications Decency Act of 1996, was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutionally restrictive on First Amendment speech rights, in part, the court said, because it would reduce material that adults had a constitutional right to see "to only what is fit for children".
is warning fellow Democrats not to mess with his restrictive anti-abortion amendment.
Representatives of the dish antenna industry said, however, that the new ordinances may be too restrictive, abridging First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and the press.
Is it credible that such a power would have been unnoticed and unopposed in the Federal Convention? in the State Conventions, which contended for, and proposed restrictive and explanatory amendments? and in the Congress of 1789, which recommended so many of these amendments?
The two laws in question are the 1933 Buy American Act, which requires the Pentagon to purchase domestically-produced products for purchases over a $3,500 threshold, and the more-restrictive 1941 Berry Amendment, which applies mainly to clothing and food products purchased by the military.
