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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act. Sam Brownback
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I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does. Jessi Klein
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If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.
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From my point of view, he's falling on the side of exercising his First Amendment right to voice his opinion. He's not using the mechanisms of campaigning to do it. He's just writing some letters.
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Just like the Berlin Wall, the Wright Amendment will fall.
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I think in the future it will provide more precautions for people who are exercising their First Amendment rights and at the same time give police officers a clear directive as to how to handle those situations.
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It concerns me greatly. It clearly raises serious concerns about First Amendment rights. Bob Barr
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I though it appropriate ... that I drop by and let him know that it was my view that changing the Magnuson amendment was unacceptable in my state, and that view crossed all party lines. Mike McGavick
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I think the First Amendment is probably the most important thing that you have in this country. And I'm always horrified at the cavalier way that you (Americans) treat it. Neil Gaiman
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I think the direction this amendment has taken has been foreshadowed in the past few years. Developers file at the last minute just to see if they can buy more time, but single-asset cases aren't favored, and they haven't been favored for some time. Judges have seen enough of these cases that they no longer buy pie-in-the-sky projections from developers. The changes reflect what many judges I was dealing with were imposing anyway. Robert Nelson
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Her Second Amendment positions would lose her the primary in North Carolina unless she modifies them. David Keene
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Here we are considering an amendment increasing an already huge appropriation by $1,000,000,000. It is like using a teaspoon in order to get a few taxes into the Treasury and at the same time at the back door using a scoop shovel to shovel them out. Everett Dirksen
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From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence, Alan Page
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For three years now, the administration has been sending the message that cruel and inhuman treatment is OK. Now the McCain amendment is going to wipe all of that away. It reminds everybody who's on the front line that the rules are the rules, and if somebody tells you they don't apply, don't listen to them.
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There is an article in the constitution concerning the amendment and we are determined to change all articles that risk leading to a division of Iraq.
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If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. John Dingell
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If this amendment passes, it takes us back to where we were before the session. Employers would be able to do whatever they want to do.
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If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. Jeff Flake
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If we lose under California state law, which I don't expect, that is not the end of it. The next step would be a federal lawsuit based on infringement of the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Wayne LaPierre
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If someone steals your identity and goes into the hospital and has medical treatment, you will have a medical record in your name that doesn't match your body. All you do is put in an amendment that says you disagree with it.
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He is inclined to the view of the First Amendment that the government is not intended to be hostile to religion. It is intended to be accommodating when it can.
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He has supported overturning Roe vs. Wade in the form of aconstitutional amendment to protect the unborn child. He hasarticulated a policy that is strongly pro-life. And he has said hewould appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court,
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He is actually an elected official, ... You never really give up your First Amendment right, but there is a duty of prudence. Joe Cannon
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He feels vindicated by knowing the courts have recognized he had a First Amendment right to display the Confederate flag as a reflection of his Southern heritage and traditions that he viewed as important.
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Network neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online - and the public demands Congress not dismantle it.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly, ... The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pay them a living wage to actually buy a home and live in our community.
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New Jersey is a unique state nationally when it comes to this issue. That became very clear with a governor's race in which candidates on both sides opposed an amendment to the state constitution that would limit marriage to a man and a woman.
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The primary purpose of making the amendment is to give both domestic and foreign companies an easy entry to the market of performances.
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She's flat out wrong. The only justification for special taxes is to pay for administrative costs. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that First Amendment businesses can't be singled out for special taxes.
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We're here to make sure the First Amendment rights of the protesters are met, as well as the rights of the citizens on the street. Public safety is always a concern.
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Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions. The coalition believes it is confusing and unethical to restrict citizens to one vote on two opposing issues, which this amendment would have done.
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Searching Jane and Mary Doe for evidence beyond the scope of the warrant and without probable cause violated their clearly established 4th Amendment rights, Michael Chertoff