This week Amado Boudou, the economy minister, signalled the government's keenness by asking Congress to repeal a law that bans negotiations with those who rejected the 2005 deal.
So I do think it is important to underscore that the first legislative action that that Congress took was to repeal a law that helps seniors and helps families, and added a couple hundred billion dollars to the deficit.
But Democratic leaders have opposed efforts to repeal a 1981 law barring most offshore drilling.
Democratic leaders had previously opposed Republican-led efforts to repeal a 1981 law barring most offshore drilling.
And for the past four years, Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has tried to repeal a 2003 law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
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On the flipside, Referendum 74, on the Washington state ballot, asks voters to repeal a new law that the legislature passed earlier this year and Governor Christine Gregoire signed, legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Despite Pelosi and the Democratic leadership opposing efforts to repeal a 1981 law barring most offshore drilling, the Senate group said its plan probably would allow offshore drilling in new areas of the outer continental shelf.
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Some opposition politicians and educationalists want to gather signatures for a referendum to repeal the law, as is allowed under the constitution.
In April the Constitutional Court refused to repeal a 1965 blasphemy law, which has strict provisions that are widely abused by Islamist groups.
The effort to repeal the law seemed a low priority at the time.
The move to formally repeal the law followed a parliamentary question asked last year.
Romney now pledges to repeal the federal law, a necessary position for any Republican in today's hyper-partisan GOP political environment.
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Given that a vote to repeal the law outright is all but certain to fail in the Senate, Republicans say they'll press ahead with other strategies to neuter the legislation, including choking off its funding.
The focus after QE3 quickly shifted to the prospect of the Fiscal Cliff, where the Budget Control Act, which goes into effect on January 1, 2013 unless Congress and the President compromise on a solution to repeal the law.
The PQ promised to abolish the tuition-fees increase and repeal a law known as Bill 78, which was passed last May to restrict where and how students may demonstrate.
But a new obstacle has arisen: Congress has approved two bills whose effect is to reverse the recent repeal of a bankruptcy law which favoured debtors at the expense of banks.
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The most economically damaging source of regulatory constraint is in finance, thanks not just to the Dodd-Frank financial law (which many Republicans want to repeal) but a panoply of state, federal and global actions.
"Make no mistake, the legislature is not going to repeal this law and have Alabama become a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants, " Stacy said.
That's why you heard the President discuss publicly his commitment to see a repeal of the Jackson-Vanik law, and again, greater access for U.S. businesses into Russian markets.
He is insisting that the United States Senate accede during the post-Thanksgiving lame-duck session to his demand for the repeal of a 1993 law prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the armed forces.
"Whatever your conclusions in this critically important matter, your ultimate decision must focus foremost on a single question: "What do our armed forces gain - or what do they lose - from repeal of a law crafted to ensure their effectiveness in accomplishing the sole reason for which they exist?
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In that case, a vote for repeal of the 1993 law barring homosexuals from the military amounts to a vote for reinstating the draft.
So instead of making the IRS bigger in response to a bad healthcare law, why not repeal that bad law and shrink the size of the IRS?
The Commandant of the Marine Corps has recently been criticized for stating the fact that attitudes among Marines similar to those above represent a risk associated with repeal of the law.
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Action by you to repeal the law prior to this time-line and a subsequently finalized court decision will nullify any basis for the appeal and will establish as legal precedent Judge Phillips' ruling.
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The New Hampshire legislature this month is expected to vote on a bill that would repeal the same-sex marriage law there.
Even if repeal seems impossible, some see a chance to reform the blasphemy law demanding a higher burden of evidence for accusations, for instance.
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Several officials from large health insurers said that if the mandate were struck down, their first priority would be persuading members of Congress to repeal two of the law's major insurance changes: a requirement to cover everyone regardless of his or her medical history, and limits on how much insurers can vary premiums based on age.
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Olympia Snowe of Maine, will try to overturn the executive order by using the Congressional Review Act, a 5-year-old law designed to speed repeal of executive orders Congress deems unworthy.
They are worried that France's government, under pressure from the European Court of Justice, may repeal a French law obliging owners of small pieces of land to let field-sportsmen on to their property.
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