The federal government has gone even further and exempted EADS from the Buy American Act, the Berry Amendment, the International Trafficking and Arms Regulations, and the Cost Accounting Standards.

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As a result, last week's amendment will substantially reduce the cost of aluminum-based car components, which will likely accelerate the industry's plans to replace vast amounts of steel currently used in cars with aluminum.

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And in case of the Senate economic plan, jobs plan that was put forward, I believe it was Macroeconomic Advisers said that if it were implemented right away, including the balanced budget amendment, it would cost millions of jobs.

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The goal of the Amendment was to make swipe fees reasonable and proportionate to the actual cost of processing a transaction.

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They claimed that the SEC had not taken their suggestions into consideration, and that the disclosure rules were both cost prohibitive, and violated their First Amendment rights.

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Debit swipe fees more closely reflect the cost of fraud protection than do credit card fees, which the Durbin Amendment leaves untouched.

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If we believe that they understood the intent of the law which they wrote better than we do, then we cannot seriously argue that they thought the 14th amendment specifically mandated debt expansion rather than other means such as cost reduction to deal with excessive debt.

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The party said it supported the cap in principle but voted to support the amendment - arguing the current cap risked making people homeless, ultimately increasing the cost to the taxpayer.

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