1.   This has become almost as sacred as the first amendment right of free speech.

2.   As a sign of their ability to overcome the setback, they pointed to their defeat of the first Democratic amendment to the welfare bill Thursday.

3.   A. It reestablishes what I believe our forefathers meant in the first amendment.

4.   After his first amendment to the bill was defeated, Kennedy ground committee action to a halt by insisting a quorum be present to debate additional amendments.

5.   Broadcasters and advertisers say that advertising is protected as free speech under the first amendment to the Constitution.

6.   Cleland had voted against the first gun show amendment, part of the multibillion dollar juvenile justice bill, the week before.

7.   Critics of the measure have said that it infringed on their first amendment rights and that it only removed the perception of wrongdoing in a visible area.

8.   Goodling opposed the first amendment but supported the second, saying a middle ground was necessary.

9.   Lenk did first amendment work at the firm.

10.   McCain and Feingold will be allowed to offer their bill, or components of it, as the first amendment.