Sentences with phrase «[budget amendment»

All those in favor of the budget we've outlined... (or all those in favor of the budget we've outlined with amendments to the cost - line offered by Bob).»

This looks like a good development concept, and proceeding with this kind of well planned infil illustrates why we don't need wholesale planning amendments across the Western Suburbs (Cambridge's Amendment 31 springs to mind).

The only federal law that governs libel, Abrams said, is the First Amendment.

And if he were to try and do that, Trump would run into a very large obstacle known as the First Amendment.

If your mistake will likely result in legal action or criminal or civil liability, any good attorney will tell you to remain silent to protect your fifth amendment privilege against self - incrimination.

It's enshrined in our constitution as the first amendment.

Demonstrators at the University of Missouri may have been wrong about the First Amendment, but there were right about other things.

He'd eliminate the payroll tax, and he favors a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced budget.

Although no recent First Amendment cases could be seen to apply directly to the publication of tax returns from a candidate for president, lawyer Floyd Abrams said that «all the cases make it extremely unlikely that the Times could constitutionally be held liable for publishing such a newsworthy story, a month before a presidential election, about a candidate for President.»

However, it remains an open question whether it's ever illegal, given the First Amendment's protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information.

No, because it would require an all - out battle against the First Amendment.

These are mostly well meaning or special interest refinements of language or amendments.

Of course, the social network is a corporation controlled by its shareholders (primarily Mark Zuckerberg), and therefore it isn't required to adhere to the free - speech dictates of the First Amendment.

The Twittersphere won't stop talking about Michelle Wolf's routine at this weekend's White House Correspondents» Association dinner, an annual celebration of the first amendment.

It included an amendment that prevents the justice department from using funds to go after medical marijuana.

I stand with the NRA & support our 2nd Amendment rights.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

There are hard First Amendment cases but this would not be one of them.»

The skinny bill included a series of amendments that aimed to repeal certain unpopular parts of the Affordable Care Act.

The core of any argument about stories of this kind is that they are protected by the First Amendment because there is a clear public interest in having the information released that outweighs the fact that it was classified, or may have been obtained by illegal means.

Even before election - day amendments in both states legalized recreational use in November, they already had thriving medical markets.

The rest would likely come around, too, if Sanders offers it as a poison - pill amendment to an Obamacare repeal package.

Kentucky senator Rand Paul has said he'd seek a balanced budget amendment, and that he'd also shrink spending, limiting it to only what comes in via tax revenue.

That means the Obama administration was given free rein to craft the agreement, which must be submitted to a straight up or down vote, with no possibility of amendment or filibuster.

First Amendment expert Robert Corn - Revere went even further, saying «the notion that the Times could be held liable in some fashion for publishing information it lawfully obtained about Donald Trump's taxes is delusional.

The 13th constitutional amendment was ratified in 1865 and stated: «Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.»

«So when Trump says he wants to «open up» libel law, he really means (if he has the slightest knowledge of the law) that he wants to open up — to change — the First Amendment, which, beginning in 1964, has been held to require in cases brought by public figures, proof that what was said was false, and that the newspaper knew or suspected that it was false.

Delta continues to support the 2nd Amendment.»

Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert in the First Amendment, told the Washington Post that a court could decide that if the public interest was so compelling, then newspapers or the public should try to compel the candidate to authorize the IRS to release his tax information lawfully.

Fifteen local broking, legal and advisory firms have teamed up to put forward their concerns with the ASX's proposed changes to its listing requirements, and to advocate three particular amendments.

Other state legislators reacted to Delta's Saturday tweet like Rick Jeffares, a candidate for lieutenant governor and former state senator, who tweeted that he is «leading the charge to let Delta know their attack on the NRA and our 2nd Amendment is unacceptable.»

Senate Republicans did just that in 2009, when 23 of them — including Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, and John Cornyn, all GOP leaders who count themselves stalwart drug industry allies — backed an importation amendment in an attempt to turn the sector against the entire package and thereby sink it.

Levandowski, who is not a defendant in the civil case, has asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege against self - incrimination and has refused to testify.

«If you're OK licensing my Second Amendment right, what's wrong with licensing your First Amendment?

Sometimes, this approach to leadership required Lincoln to make deals he was initially uncomfortable with to gain the support of legislators, notably to win passage of the constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery,» he writes.

But despite the jury's initial verdict, there is little doubt that the site's behavior is fully protected by the First Amendment, or should be.

Michael Cohen to Assert 5th Amendment Right Against Self - Incrimination in Stormy Daniels Lawsuit

Since 1996, under a provision called the Dickey Amendment, Congress has prevented agencies in the U.S. Health and Human Services administration from using funds «to advocate or promote gun control.»

Congress is weighing renewing the amendment for the next fiscal year.

The BCRA's newest iteration also contains a controversial amendment from Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that some health policy experts and major insurance companies have warned could catalyze a race - to - the - bottom.

In his letter, Sessions opposed an amendment by Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer and California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher that prevents the Justice Department from interfering with states» medical marijuana.

He also said Delta supports the 2nd Amendment but is committed to ending group discounts for «politically divisive» groups.

The PBMs» trade group lobbied hard against the provision and in the end won a concession: an amendment requiring the government to keep the PBMs» incentives and spreads confidential.

Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

I refuse to allow bullying, intimidation and threat of legal action to take away my First Amendment right to speak out against wrongdoing.»

MELBOURNE, May 2 - An amendment by the U.S. Treasury to its Russian sanctions program may greatly reduce the restrictions on aluminium giant Rusal, Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jean Sebastien Jacques said on Wednesday.

Under Cruz's somewhat complicated amendment, insurers would be able to offer plans that don't comply with various Obamacare standards (protections for those with pre-existing conditions, mandated benefits, etc.) as long as they also offer a plan that does comply with those standards.

Last April the federal government added a modest transparency amendment to the Affordable Care Act.

The threat Trump poses to the First Amendment and freedom of the press is very real.

(As the Fourteenth Amendment says, «nor shall any State... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»)