1.   If Congress were to repeal the amendment this year, GUPS-type investigations would be easier to initiate.

2.   Democrats and moderate Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the amendment, but it has little chance of passage under current congressional leadership.

3.   Dole hoped to make the gas-tax repeal an amendment to a separate bill granting taxpayers more power to challenge IRS rulings.

4.   Opponents have promised to work to repeal the amendment.

5.   The city repealed the amendment in the wake of a referendum challenge and still must find a way to close that money gap.

6.   The Virginia Republican said today that the administration needs to get involved in the fight to repeal the amendment.

7.   The Virginia Republican said yesterday that the administration needs to get behind the effort to repeal the amendment.

8.   Another independent legislator, Kennedy Wong Ying-ho, doubted the rationale of repealing the amendment when the Bar Association had found it unnecessary to do so.

9.   By then a proposal to repeal the amendment will be submitted to the Provisional Legislative Council.