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And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.
Michael Burgess

Today, Important, Keep

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
Kurt Loder

Important, Country, Rights

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
Larry Craig

Freedom, Made, Away

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Anthony Kennedy

Government, Often, Point

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
Patricia Ireland

Family, Legal, School

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
Peter Camejo

Mind, Face, Act

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
Sam Brownback

Time, Fact, Act

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
Herb Kohl

Good, Children, After

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Connie Sellecca

Children, Game, Country

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Elton Gallegly

Public, Taken, Shall

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
Corrine Brown

Marriage, Gay, Support

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.
Spencer Bachus

True, American, Last

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Nick Lampson

Marriage, Today, Woman

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein

History, Matter, Race

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.
Nick Rahall

Today, Mind, Prayer

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
Michael Chabon

Life, Same, Sun

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
John Perry Barlow

Local, Cyberspace, Ordinance

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Linda Chavez

Religion, Freedom, Government

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Jimmy Swaggart

Marriage, God, Woman

Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.
Bob Filner

Country, Why, Others

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
Bill Shuster

Marriage, President, Second

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
James L. Buckley

Corruption, Individual, Speech

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.
Russ Carnahan

Again, Against, Security

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.
Dick Thornburgh

Law, Matters, Governed

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.
Dick Thornburgh

Power, Voting, State

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.
Dixie Lee Ray

Private, Property, Fifth

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Mary Cheney

Marriage, President, Banning

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
Michael Kinsley

Equal, Protection, Liberals

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.
Rich Lowry

War, Pretty, Free

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
John Thune

Marriage, Woman, Between

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