He had previously supported Section 28 and other anti-gay legislation.

Most classical liberals also supported legislation to regulate the number of hours that children were allowed to work and usually did not oppose factory reform legislation.

Erhard viewed the market itself as social and supported only a minimum of welfare legislation.

* On March 30, 2000, with Senator Russ Feingold, Ashcroft convened the only Senate hearing on racial profiling, where he stated that racial profiling is unconstitutional and said that he supported the concept of legislation requiring that statistics be kept of police actions.

They did this because he supported legislation initiated by Jesse Helms.

It was within this framework that Suleiman, supported by his Grand Mufti Ebussuud, sought to reform the legislation to adapt to a rapidly changing empire.

The competition was stiffer, since Garfield now had taken positions on issues which bore defending, such as the draft legislation he supported, tariffs, and his involvement in the Milligan case.

Erhard viewed the market itself as social and supported only a minimum of welfare legislation.

In 1983, he supported legislation to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. a federal holiday.

For example, James Farley used his position as Postmaster General during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration to reward party loyalists within Congress who supported Roosevelt's initial " 100 days " legislation with federal patronage for their states.

The Speaker is responsible for ensuring that the House passes legislation supported by the majority party.

Despite her personal views, Alexandra supported her son's reluctant agreement to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's request to create sufficient Liberal peers after a general election if the Lords continued to block the legislation.

Johnson was greatly supported by the Democratic Party and as President, he was responsible for designing the " Great Society " legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his " War on Poverty.

CellAntenna lost its case, but as a response have supported legislation ( The Safe Prisons Communications Act ) sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Representative Kevin Bradley ; the bill attempting to amend the Communications Act of 1934 was left in committee in the House.

These judgments supported a second round of legislation.

NRA supported that act, the first major federal legislation about gun control, and also supported the Federal Firearms Act of 1938.

On March 18, 2011, the Industrial Workers of the World website ( www. iww. org ) supported an endorsement of a general strike as a followup to protests against Governor Scott Walker's proposed labor legislation in Wisconsin, following a motion passed by the South Central Federation of Labor ( SCFL ) of Wisconsin endorsing a statewide general strike as a response to those legislative proposals.

In October 1972 Congress passed legislation creating a second deputy secretary of defense position, a proposal Laird strongly supported, even though he never filled the position.

During his time in Congress, he was a social and fiscal conservative who supported isolationism and civil rights legislation.

During his tenure, he supported legislation to protect settlers from land speculators.

He signed legislation that provided for a new statewide accountability program and for the Academic Performance Index and supported the high school exit exam.

By the time Americans went to the polls, John Kerry opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment and affirmatively supported civil unions, while George W. Bush supported the Federal Marriage Amendment to ban same sex marriage but was not opposed to states enacting their own civil union legislation.

During this time, Magritte supported himself through the production of fake Picassos, Braques and Chiricos — a fraudulent repertoire he was later to expand into the printing of forged banknotes during the lean postwar period.

Thus he developed and strongly supported " Vietnamization ", a program intended to expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U. S. combat troops.

The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a five-year program, supported by Swiss bank UBS in which the Foundation will identify and work with artists, curators and educators from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa to expand its reach in the international art world.

He supported efforts to expand Finnish nurse training, Finnish pharmacy industry, and public awareness about medical matters.

In 2004 the airport management announced that they supported the government plans to expand the facilities to include a full-length runway and a new terminal.

Archibald also supported reciprocity with the United States, and opposed any efforts to expand the province's electoral franchise.

Sandys also strongly supported the headright system, for his goal was a permanent colony which would enlarge English territory, relieve the nation's overpopulation, and expand the market for English goods.

Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the watershed of the Owens Valley, an effort fictionalized in the Roman Polanski movie Chinatown, which is also covered in California Water Wars.

The new agency's plans to expand usage at the airport to erase its deficit, awoke a long-simmering disagreement between community groups and Toronto politicians wishing to close the airport and the business community which supported the expansion of its usage.

The Centre, the BVP and the DNVP jointly supported legislation to expand religious schools.

After Coverdell was elected to the Senate he continued his support for the Peace Corps and supported legislation to expand it.

The Democratic Party had been supported particularly by workers, and the SVP sought to expand its electoral base towards these, as the traditional BGB base in the rural population had started to lose its importance in the post-war era.

To expand their regional musical career and supported by their parents, they moved to Mexico City, where record producer Luis de Llano, recognizing their potential and added his son, Tito de Llano.

A period of prosperity followed for France's colony, but the Iroquois, now supported by the English, continued to expand their territory to the westward, fighting French allies in the Great Lakes region, and again threatening the French fur trade.

There are proposals to renew and expand the treaty, supported by U. S. President Barack Obama.

In order to be able to expand its relations with the industry, Sharif University has supported establishment of Research Centers.

After the death of Heny II in 1024, Dirk III supported the candidature of Conrad II in an attempt to reconcile with the imperial authorities, so as to keep the lands he had acquired, or expand them even further.

Kosygin supported Bourassa's project and expressed concerns regarding his country's own nuclear power, explaining his country had to develop the technology because the USSR lacked suitable rivers to expand its own hydroelectric network of dams and power stations.

Mond supported scientific societies and, with Henry Roscoe, helped to expand the small Lancashire Chemical Society into the nationwide Society of Chemical Industry of which he was elected president in 1888.

This feature can be used to expand its command set or access system resources and hardware otherwise not supported by default.

Hitler was also against Gömbös ’ s plans to expand the size and power of the Hungarian military, while Mussolini supported the idea.

As Secretary of State for nearly ten months, he supported new voter initiatives to register and educate voters and protect voters ’ rights, as well as efforts to expand the Border / Mexico Affairs office.

He viewed it as an excellent opportunity to expand the Commonwealth's territory and sphere of influence, with hopes that the eventual outcome of the war would Catholicize Orthodox Russia ( in this he was strongly supported by the Pope ) and enable him to defeat Sweden.