Ismail said two documents needed to be drawn up: an amendment to the constitution making the secession of Singapore possible, and an act giving Singapore independence under that amendment.

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Peers voted by 203 to 165 to pass an amendment calling for an independent review of council tax reduction schemes within three years of the act coming into force.

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That, argue his lawyers, is an act of pure reportage and is protected by the first amendment.

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In 1986, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated federal wiretapping law in an effort to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of cell phone users.

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Mike Enzi of Wyoming, a sponsor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, has brought the bill to the Senate floor as an amendment to the budget resolution.

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But passing an amendment saying that a big chunk of the transparency provisions of the law shall not take effect means it will now take an act of Congress to narrowly target any transparency fixes.

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