61. The Republican platform would restrict its use. 62. The Republican platform would rewrite the amendment to take that right away from the children of illegal immigrants and legal immigrants without permanent resident visas. 63. The Republican platform, which took a softer approach to some controversial issues this year, did not change on guns. 64. The speech Wednesday night was to the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, an organization of mostly small businesses among which the Republican platform is quite popular. 65. The Republican platform in Texas is staunchly anti-abortion and pro-school prayer, but the candidate hardly touches on those issues. 66. The Republican platform makes no mention of the exceptions that Bush had previously supported. 67. The Republican platform says there should be no negotiations with indicted war criminals such as Milosevic, and that Washington should seek their arrest, trial and imprisonment. 68. They demanded that the anti-abortion plank found in recent Republican platforms be taken out. 69. This plank of the Republican platform proposes a clear and plausible means for rectifying the mistakes on Iraq made by President Clinton and the Bush administration. 70. Two consecutive GOP visits were too much for research associate Roberta Bonk, who said not everyone in the biotech industry supported the Republican platform. |