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The United States Senate learned very little from Littleton, Colorado ... We defeated a sensible amendment that would have at least had a background check at gun shows. Dick Durbin
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This government can't figure out the difference between legal First Amendment rights to criticize the government and terrorism. So we have cause for concern.
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This decision clearly supports the spoken objective of this administration to end the Byrd Amendment and comply with the WTO.
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This charter amendment will bring Austin to the forefront of a national movement for accessible, online government and participatory democracy. Information that is critical to your everyday life -- whether you want to build a garage apartment or protest the next big tax giveaway -- will go online in the next year. This will save you time and the city money.
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This event is a time for elected officials - many of whom are facing a vote on June 5 on the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment - to see the faces of their constituents and see in a very real way that we are about family values, too. One of our core family values is simple, basic equality for all of our family members, and we want our legislators to understand what it means. That's what this day is about.
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This amendment would bar the legal recognition for civil unions, domestic partnerships or life partnerships. This non-recognition would extend to opposite sex couples as well as same-sex couples.
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This amendment would actually grant one company an unregulated monopoly. Larry Page
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This amendment will torpedo this bill and send it to the bottom of the sea.
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This amendment targets a specific group of Americans and permanently excludes them from certain rights and benefits, ... The most often discussed text for a marriage amendment would not only ban same-sex marriages, it would threaten civil union and domestic partnerships laws at the state and local levels. Russ Feingold
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This amendment sends an important message that there is no place for hatred and violence in America
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This amendment raises the very distinct prospect, which I believe all of us fear, that the entire effort will fall if the U.S. Supreme Court finds one defect, this is a critical amendment in that regard,
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This amendment ... is not about homosexuality, this amendment is not about discrimination,
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This amendment is a commonsense step in the right direction. Politicians of all stripes should rally behind this effort to promote health families and healthy pregnancies.
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This amendment ensures that any funds received by the owners of Evergreen Terrace will be used for the benefit of the residents, and it creates a system of accountability that makes sure that, at the end of the day, the tenants are the top priority.
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This is absurd. This is irresponsible. I strongly urge senators to consider what they're doing here tonight in supporting this amendment because, in a word I do not use lightly, this is an outrage. Max Baucus
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I, too, strongly support this amendment ... it is a superb depot and they are doing a great job in this period of war. Anthony Principi
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It's a historic piece of legislation. As of Oct. 20, the Second Amendment is probably in the best shape in this country that it's been in decades. Wayne LaPierre
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It is under assault as never before as a result of the mindset of 9/11, in which fear, rather than good public policy, has taken over. The Fourth Amendment says, I think quite clearly, that each of us is clothed in a sphere of privacy, and that the government cannot pierce that sphere of privacy unless it has a good reason for doing so. Bob Barr
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It's not perfect, but the amendment moves the bill from being a net negative to a net positive.
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The report provides overwhelming evidence that the Byrd amendment has turned into a giant corporate and welfare program where a few large companies are reaping millions of dollars in subsidies based on overstated and unaudited qualifying expenditures,
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You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
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It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate. Sheila Jackson Lee
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Floridians cannot support your efforts if the Peterson-Abercrombie amendment remains a part of your bill. Richard Pombo
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Every year we receive a number of outlandish claims from tax cheats: The Sixteenth Amendment concerning the power to lay and collect income taxes was never ratified, wages are not income, and other false arguments. Don?t count on it. They were thrown out of court back then and there going to be thrown out of court in the future.
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A state version of the Human Life Amendment has never been attempted. We believe, as the pro-life movement has always believed ... that the legal recognition of unborn children using a constitutional process would resoundingly overturn Roe. v. Wade.
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At the very least, the freedom that Congress is empowered to secure includes the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a freeman means at least this much, then the 13th Amendment made a promise it cannot keep. Potter Stewart
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Contrary to what right-wing talk radio would want the country to believe, the First Amendment does apply to teachers in the classroom as long as what they're saying is consistent with school policy and is within the curriculum.
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The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. It is difficult to think of something more unreasonable than searching the private phone records and digital information of citizens who are suspected of nothing. Ben Shapiro
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We do not need a new Fourth Amendment for cyberspace. But we need to recognize that people are conducting more of their lives online. The price tag for this technology should not include a loss of privacy.
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Broadcasters don't have any First Amendment obligations or statutory obligations to carry hard-liquor ads. I've been saying, please just say no to this, Reed Hundt
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We are very alarmed that our First Amendment rights have been undermined to the degree that the city of Boston now thinks the rights of free expression, the right to rally and protest means you get out into an area like this.
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We are unwilling to send police and judges into a new thicket of 4th Amendment law, to seek a creature of uncertain description that is neither a plain-view inspection nor yet a ""full-blown search. Antonin Scalia
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We're very happy the Senate chose to keep the full text of the amendment as the ballot question. It's really important that voters know what their vote will mean when they cast it in November. We look forward to having that discussion with the voters.