Word: amendmenteers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
At the Kuwaiti parliament last week, a crowd gathered quickly, noisily, in one of those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political...
A proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but allowing civil unions passed a vote of the legislature last year. The proposal needs the vote of a newly-elected legislature in 2005-06 before it could be put to voters in a referendum.
The proposed amendment died last summer in the Senate by a vote of 50-48 but is expected to come up again in the future.
Another amendment reflects rising concerns in the possibility that scientists may take advantage of poor women by offering monetary compensation for their eggs.
Nevertheless, Romney’s proposed amendment would state explicitly that women may be only paid for expenses directly associated with egg donation such as medical care or transportation.