Prior to a 2002 amendment to the Foreign Service Act ( Section 503 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended by the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 ), United States government employees were required to resign from government service for their period of assignment to AIT.

In 1986, shortly before his retirement from the Senate, Laxalt proposed an amendment to the Energy Department's appropriations bill that slashed funding for the nuclear waste repository program from $ 769 million to $ 380 million for Fiscal Year 1987.

The day prior to his death, Congressman Gene Taylor introduced an amendment to a House Defense Appropriations Bill to rename the bill the Sonny Montgomery National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007.

As of 2008, due to the amendment to California Labor Code Section 515. 5 by Bill SB 929, this minimum wage of $ 36 / hour works out to be USD $ 74, 880 per year.

An amendment to The Gambia Armed Forces Bill in April 2008 included the creation of three new special units to expand the GAF: the republican guards, the national guards and special forces.

But on November 4, 2008, voters overwhelmingly rejected the council's proposed change, defeating the amendment by a more than two-to-one margin.

Starting with the 2008 legislative elections, drastic changes were made to the Legislative Yuan in accordance with a constitutional amendment passed in 2005.

In early 2008 Federal Representative W. Todd Akin proposed an amendment to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 to " make it unlawful for a person to import plastinated human remains into the United States.

* Florida Amendment 2 ( 2008 ), an amendment to the Constitution of Florida that prohibited same-sex marriage.

As of 2008, the forest service has released a new amendment to the Forest Plan for the Tongass Forest.

In 2008 a decision was made to extend the deadline for accepting the TRIPS agreement amendment.

In 2008, House Bill 995, an amendment to the Florida Condominium Act modeled on the Illinois state legislation, became law.

The increased age of consent of nineteen for same-sex sexual activity ( as opposed to sixteen for opposite-sex sexual activity ) was invalidated in 2008 in the case of Geldenhuys v National Director of Public Prosecutions, although by that time the discriminatory provisions had been repealed by the 2007 amendment act.

Arizonans voted down one such amendment in 2006, but approved a different amendment to that effect in 2008.

Same-sex marriage opponents in California placed a state constitutional amendment known as Proposition 8 on the November 2008 ballot for the purpose of restoring an opposite-sex definition of marriage.

Warren and the church supported the 2008 California constitutional amendment Proposition 8, which required the state to recognize only marriage between a man and a woman.

This amendment was legally controversial until a Supreme Court case in 2008.

* Federal Rule of Evidence 502 Resource Page Provides background and key links on the 2008 amendment " to address the waiver of the attorney – client privilege and the work product doctrine.

In July 2008, the National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment increasing the length of the presidential term to seven years, as it was prior to the adoption of the 2001 constitution.

In June 2008, the section of the act known as the " millionaire's amendment " was overturned by the Supreme Court in Davis v. Federal Election Commission.

Its deputies boycotted the April 2008 parliamentary vote in which the amendment was approved, and it subsequently called for a " day of mourning " in which people were to wear black and stay home.

In 2008 his amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, known as the Waddington Amendment, inserted a freedom of speech clause into new anti-homophobic hate crime legislation.

During House debate on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2009, In the State Department foreign operations appropriations bill of 2008, the House approved Tierney's amendment to direct $ 75, 000, 000 to secular school construction in Pakistan to compete against Islamic madrassas.

With more than 52 % of the vote, the opposition candidate for MUD Gregorio Graterol wins the seat on the circuit assembly, representing the fourth consecutive defeat of Chavismo in the city ( the 2007 reform, the government in 2008, amendment in 2009 and parliamentary elections in 2010 )

At the 2008 business meeting, an amendment to the World Science Fiction Society's Constitution was passed which would remove this category.

In November 2008 California voters overturned the In re Marriage Cases decision by approving an amendment of the state constitution called Proposition 8.

The Senate approved an amendment to the 1985 Defense Authorization Bill on June 13, 1985 which changed the precedence from immediately above the Good Conduct Medal to immediately above the Meritorious Service Medals.

This was later changed in the amendment to the act in 1949, creating what was to be the Department of Defense.

Through subsequent modification the Mansfield amendment moved the Department of Defense toward the support of more short-term applied research in universities.

However, under the Obama Administration funding for development of Yucca Mountain waste site was terminated effective via amendment to the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, passed by Congress on April 14, 2011.

and amendment H. AMDT. 974 to it by Representative Edward P. Boland passed with a recorded vote of 411-0 to prohibit the CIA or Defense Department to use the funds of the bill for military purposes in Nicaragua.

On February 22, 2005, McKenna told reporters Canada was already a part of the U. S. National Missile Defense ( NMD ) ( or Ballistic Missile Defense ( BMD )) program through an amendment to the NORAD agreement made on August 5, 2004, which granted U. S. access to NORAD's missile warning systems explicitly for use in NMD.

He voted against the death penalty, the flag desecration amendment, the balanced budget amendment, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, the Defense of Marriage Act, the Communications Decency Act, and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

1993 ) ( holding that statute limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violates the Hawaii constitution's equal-protection clause unless the state can show that the statute is ( 1 ) justified by compelling state interests and ( 2 ) narrowly tailored, prompting a state constitutional amendment and the federal Defense of Marriage Act )

The same constitutional amendment also acknowledged the role of the recently formed National Defense Council of the GDR ( Nationale Verteidigungsrat der DDR ) in GDR defense policy.

Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Pueblo was attacked .” According to Sen. Alan Cranston, who drafted the Senate version of the 1989 amendment to 10 USC § 1128, “ The Department of Defense has interpreted that provision Law 99-145, which is codified at section 1128 of title 10, as not permitting the award of POW Medal to individuals who were taken and held as prisoner in situations other than the classical prisoner-of-war situation during armed conflict.

The Senate members of the conference committee for the FY1990 National Defense Authorization Act eventually drafted an amendment that “ would clarify the intent of Congress that persons serving with the U. S. armed forces who are taken prisoner and held captive by certain hostile, foreign armed forces should receive the prisoner of war medal.

The attorney discovered that neither the DoD awards manual nor the Navy's awards manual cited the 1989 amendment, and he called the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel ( ASD / FM & P ).

This bill, S. 487, was eventually incorporated into the FY1990 National Defense Authorization Act, and became part of the 1989 amendment to the POW Medal statute.

She also introduced an amendment in June, 2011 to cut funding for military bands by $ 125 million dollars which could lead to the loss of over 3000 jobs in all branches of the Department of Defense.

The congressman co-sponsored, with Republican congressman Mac Thornberry, an amendment to the fiscal 2013 defense spending bill reversing previous bans on disseminating Defense and State Department propaganda in the United States, reversing the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, designed to protect U. S. audiences from government misinformation campaigns.

As part of an army reorganization and final realization of the 1920 amendment to the National Defense Act of 1916, Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur directed the establishment of four field armies that each commanded three corps areas that were geographically located.

Kerry cosponsored an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization Bill that allows the military to transport families of soldiers wounded while on active duty.

The American Service-Members ' Protection Act ( ASPA ) is a United States federal law introduced by US Senator Jesse Helms and signed into Law by George W. Bush as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act and passed in August 2002 by Congress.

In 1975, he introduced an amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act requiring the Defense Department to provide the U. S. Congress with information on identities of agents who negotiate arms sales for American firms.

Defense lawyers, law professors, current and former Sentencing Commissioners, the President of the American Bar Association, Chief Justice Rehnquist, and others wrote to Congress opposing the amendment.