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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. Dick Durbin
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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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Rather than make tough choices on spending, the Assembly decided to pass an amendment in the middle of the night without any public hearing and without any study of what the proposal actually does.
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Projects like Cape Wind would help put America on the path toward energy independence. This amendment emerges from nowhere, from the back door, from closed rooms.
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Private companies can always do what they want, ... I don't think this amendment is going to change business. There's a lot of scaring going on, with folks telling people that if they vote for this, they're discriminating. I can tell you there is no discrimination in our company, and this amendment isn't going to change that.
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The tape is not direct evidence, but is indeed, unreliable hearsay, which violates the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights. The defendant cannot cross-examine a videotape. Mark Brown
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The tension we have is whether a private institution should live by societal First Amendment protection or whether a private institution should go its own way. At this point, Syracuse as an institution tilts toward having a code and enforcing it.
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It's fair to say the White House has made the case -- both the president and the vice president -- that the McCain amendment is harmful, Roy Blunt
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It seems to me one thing to criticize her for certain errors in particular coverage, but it's deeply disturbing to see so many journalists ignore or discount the significant 1st Amendment battle she has just engaged in. Floyd Abrams
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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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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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Governments don't tax the exercise of constitutional freedoms, that's why we have municipal budgets and publicly funded police departments. People don't pay to exercise their First Amendment rights, that is contradictory to how the Constitution works.
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If he doesn't change his mind and support this amendment he will have a virtually impossible task to win the Republican nomination. Richard Land
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The marriage amendment should have gotten passed, ... I really don't understand what the problem was with that.
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The marriage amendment is in a class by itself because of what's at stake. Gary Bauer
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The truth is there is no $1 billion. This amendment is about deception.
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This is a good amendment of Bayer's cardiology and hematology portfolio.
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The law schools are taking a position on First Amendment grounds, and that position is in interference with military recruiting, no question about it. David Souter
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Their legislation actually creates a singles penalty that I believe will be the subject of further debate ... their amendment lopsidedly favors those at the very top of the economic scale at the expense of the middle class, Tom Daschle
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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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The framers specifically created an amendment process that was difficult, but not impossible. They didn't want to make that change easily. Steve Frank
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The court affirmed the idea of a vigorous public forum, and that's what's refreshing. The opinion sounds these First Amendment themes. The message is: If you don't like something, there is always more speech.
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The First Amendment was designed to protect the church from the state. It was not intended to protect the state from the church.
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The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort, ... Apple must first investigate its own house before seeking to disturb the freedom of the press.
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The first amendment problems were paramount for us. So we decided that the ban violated our rights and our advertisers' rights.
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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants. P. J. O'Rourke