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The budget, which Congress will probably take a final vote on this week, does include some disappointments. The Food and Drug Administration will not be permitted to evaluate abortion inducing drugs like RU-486. Internet pornography has been restricted, which is a serious threat to First Amendment rights. In addition...
Ultimately, the grant allocation remained the same, as Blake and Stone's amendment as well as another amendment, which would have given part of the council's operations budget to student groups, also failed.
"There is a big change in the national mood,"he said, referring to recent developments inCalifornia, where minority enrollment plungedafter affirmative action was removed as anadmissions factor at public universities. "[But]thanks to a coalition, [the Riggs amendment] wasdecisively defeated. We're going to defeat itagain.... To think that we...
Hyde's Old World courtliness has allowed him to pull off the remarkable trick of holding some of the most ideologically rigid views in Congress while maintaining a reputation for restraint. He crafted the famous Hyde amendment--six lines he hastily scribbled on legal paper in 1976 that deny low...
When word leaked out last spring that off-Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club was planning to stage a play in which Jesus and his apostles are portrayed as modern-day gay men, Catholic groups raised a fuss. The theater's management, fearful because of some anonymous death threats, abruptly canceled...