The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s due to the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission's post-war Fairness Doctrine of 1949, in 1987.

Talk radio as a political medium has also exploded in popularity during the 1990s, due to the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which meant that stations no longer had to " balance " their day by programming alternative points of view.

Other sections of the Contract include a proposed Family Reinforcement Act ( tax incentives for adoption, strengthening the powers of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and elderly dependent care tax credit ) and the Senior Citizens Fairness Act ( raise the Social Security earnings limit, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance ).

Circuit ordered the FCC to justify these corollary rules in light of the decision to repeal the Fairness Doctrine.

On August 22, 2011, the FCC formally voted to repeal the language that implemented the Fairness Doctrine, along with removal of more than eighty other rules and regulations, from the Federal Register following a White House executive order directing a " government-wide review of regulations already on the books ", to eliminate unnecessary regulations.

* Supports the Social Security Fairness Act, which would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision ( WEP ) and the Government Pension Offset ( GPO ) in current law.

Talk radio became more popular during the 1980s as a result of improved satellite communications, the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and ( by the mid-1990s ) extensive concentration of media ownership stemming from the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

* H. J. RES. 5 — The latest bill introduced in Congress proposing to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment.

Carl Felsenfeld and David L. Glass wrote that “ he public — which for this purpose includes most of the members of Congress ” does not understand that the investment banks and other “ shadow banking ” firms that experienced “ runs ” precipitating the financial crisis ( i. e., AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch ) never became “ financial holding companies ” under the GLBA and, therefore, never exercised any new powers available through Glass-Steagall “ repeal .” They joined Jonathan R. Macey and Peter J. Wallison in noting many GLBA critics do not understand that Glass-Steagall ’ s restrictions on banks ( i. e., Sections 16 and 21 ) remained in effect and that only the affiliation provisions in Sections 20 and 32 were repealed by the GLBA.

The Protestant dominated Irish Parliament of the eighteenth century repeatedly called for more autonomy from the British Parliament — particularly the repeal of Poynings ' Law, which allowed the latter to legislate for Ireland.

With opposition to the war mounting, a movement to repeal the resolution — which war critics decried as having given the Johnson administration a " blank check "— began to gather steam.

* 25 — St. Paul, Minnesota, voters repeal a provision in the city's human rights ordinance that protects gays and lesbians from discrimination.

* 9 — Voters in the U. S. city of Wichita, Kansas, repeal a gay rights ordinance by a nearly 5-to-1 margin ; 47, 276 for repeal, 10, 500 against.

* 23 — Voters in the U. S. city of Eugene, Oregon, repeal an ordinance banning discrimination against gays and lesbians by a 2-to-1 margin.

* 7 — Voters repeal gay rights ordinances in the U. S. cities of Athens, Ohio, Tacoma, Washington, and Irvine and Concord, California.

* 18 — Idaho decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults, but the repeal is itself repealed before taking effect.

* 12 — The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs recommends the repeal of a city law banning homosexuals from working in or going to bars.

* 3 — Voters in San Jose and Santa Clara County, California vote to repeal the city and county gay rights ordiinances.

* A committee of the Reichstag votes 15 — 13 to repeal Paragraph 175.

On 5 March 1770 — the same day as the Boston Massacre — Lord North, the new Prime Minister, presented a motion in the House of Commons that called for partial repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act.

The restrictions, which even covered Members of Parliament, made the repeal of these sections of the Constitution unamendable or repealable by de facto ; however, to entrench them further, the Act also amended Article 159 ( 5 ), which covers Constitutional amendments, to prohibit the amending of the aforementioned Articles, as well as Article 159 ( 5 ), without the consent of the Conference of Rulers — a non-elected body comprising the rulers of the Malay states and the governors of the other states.

Negotiations went on, pushing commencement further and further back, until 1977, when PETRONAS and the government, faced with the costs of maintaining the tankers between delivery and first use, surrendered management rights — leading to a repeal of part of the Petroleum Development Act — and settled for PETRONAS ' taking 60 % of equity in the new company Malaysia LNG.

Though a Democrat, he has conservative leanings — he opposes expanding gun control and supports permanent repeal of the inheritance tax and lower taxes.

When his friend Zouch campaigned against repeal Fitzwilliam wrote to him on 28 April 1791 that repeal could only be opposed on " an undeviating adherence to that which is — a principle to which I feel a strong attachment in most cases, because alteration and innovation is so seldom proposed to me, without a great alloy of experiment and uncertainty " but that Dissenters circumvented the Act and thus in practice the Church of England gained nothing from it but the Dissenters ' hostility.

What better affirmative step could be taken to this end than repeal of the Connally amendment -- an act which could expose the United States to no practical risk yet would put an end to our self-judging attitude toward the court, enable us to utilize it, and advance in a tangible way the cause of international law and order??

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.

The only exception to this rule is New Year's Day, in which case alcohol sales are permitted until 4 a. m. Alcohol sale was likewise banned on Sundays until 12p. m., and on Dec. 25 from 12 a. m. until 12 p. m, until a repeal in late 2010.

Ravi Batra argues that " all official economic measures adopted since 1981 ... have devastated the middle class " and that the Occupy Wall Street movement should push for their repeal and thus end the influence of the super wealthy in the political process, which he considers a manifestation of crony capitalism.

In 1989 Gorbachev allowed other political associations ( de facto political parties ) to coexist with the Communist Party and in 1990 obtained the repeal of Article Six of the USSR constitution which gave the party supremacy over all institutions in society, thus ending its vanguard status.

The System does not require public funding, and derives its authority and purpose from the Federal Reserve Act, which was passed by Congress in 1913 and is subject to Congressional modification or repeal.

Reforms that paved the way for multi-party democracy included the repeal of articles of the constitution, which had enshrined the leading role of the PAIGC.

The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision ( Article 3, Section 5 ) which had until its repeal prohibited " idiots or insane persons " from voting.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

A primary issue for the opposition was the repeal of Article 6 of the constitution, which prescribed the supremacy of the CPSU over all the institutions in society.

In Scotland, this stemmed out of a late repeal of the wartime licensing laws, which stayed in force until 1976.

Jefferson increasingly believed the problem was the traders and merchants who showed their lack of " republican virtue " by not complying and maintained until his death that had the embargo been lawfully observed by all US citizens it would have avoided war which after its repeal, three days before his term ended, soon followed in 1812.

Drawing upon Switzerland and its use of the initiative, the Uruguayan Constitution also allows citizens to repeal laws or to change the constitution by popular initiative which culminates into a nation-wide referendum.

In September 2010, in the light of the failure to repeal the " Don ’ t Ask, Don ’ t Tell " policy ( which banned openly gay people from serving in the military ) during the Obama administration, the Libertarian Party urged gay voters to stop supporting the Democratic Party.

Confusion arose when prior to the 2006 convention, there was a push to repeal or substantially rewrite the Platform, at the center of which were groups such as the Libertarian Reform Caucus.

While the Universal House of Justice is authorized to change or repeal its own legislation as conditions change, it cannot dissolve or change any of the laws which are explicitly written in the sacred texts.

When Parliament passed the first of the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1864 ( which allowed the local constabulary to force any woman suspected of venereal disease to submit to its inspection ), Josephine Butler's crusade to repeal the CD Acts yoked the anti-prostitution cause with the emergent feminist movement.

In April 1921, speaking before a special joint session of Congress which he had called, Harding argued for peacemaking with Germany and Austria, emergency tariffs, new immigration laws, regulation of radio and trans cable communications, retrenchment in government, tax reduction, repeal of wartime excess profits tax, reduction of railroad rates, promotion of agricultural interests, a national budget system, an enlarged merchant marine and a department of public welfare.

* January 16 – Denmark rejects a Prussian-Austrian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark.

* James VII of Scotland and James II of England tries to persuade Parliament to repeal the Test Acts, which bar Catholics from public office.