Poor control over the editing and amending process can mean that information that should be expunged survives final edits.

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The amending process in the Commons, he believes, made things worse.

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Changing the Treaty to eliminate its constraints on development and testing, however, sounds a lot like the sort of line-in, line-out amending process that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice has correctly, and repeatedly, said could not be used with the ABM Treaty.

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Eventually, they decided their best option was the long process of amending the Constitution.

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The 2009 OVDP brought in at least 14, 700 U.S. taxpayers (disclosing accounts in more than 60 countries) through the front door of IRS Criminal Investigation and untold thousands through a process of quietly amending returns and filing delinquent FBARs with the government.

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During these conversations, I had the opportunity to announce -- consistent with our strong government-to-government relationship and after a lengthy review process -- that the administration supports amending the Stafford Act to allow federally recognized tribal governments to make a request directly to the president for a federal emergency or disaster declaration.

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Another likely result of the process to play out in the House would find the GOP caucus amending the Senate bill and sending it back to the Senate to approve House originated changes.

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