Now, it is certainly the case that every senator should have read this amendment.
And anybody who says otherwise is misrepresenting what we're doing here with this amendment.
Nearly everything we associate with social programs and big government depends on this amendment.
This amendment (which ultimately was enacted as part of the Trade Reform Act of 1974) reflected Sen.
This amendment fits with the spirit of the Bill of Rights in providing basic protections for American citizens.
The Senate added this amendment on striking the Form 1099 expansion to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization.
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Are the Huffington and Washington Posts better interpreters of this amendment than the men and women who wrote it?
"This amendment allows Liberal Democrats in Parliament to back our long-held policy of the mansion tax, " Mr Cable said.
Sooner or later we'll get enough people here to get this amendment passed.
This amendment and another proposed by the Alliance party to make the Irish hare a protected species both also fell.
When combined with the deleterious effects of congressionally imposed budget cuts, the impact of this amendment will be even more insidious.
The votes are not present to submit this amendment to the states.
And they debated this amendment in the Committee, and many committee members felt that the language of the amendment was extremely flawed.
Representative EDWARD MARKEY (Democrat, Massachusetts): This amendment offers members a clear choice.
Under the terms of this amendment, in the event he cannot so certify, the President would be obliged to secure collateral for such aid.
The Scottish Conservatives' amendment said it regretted attempts to promote a nationalist agenda through the use of public resources and the teaching of history, but this amendment fell.
"The more I look at the provisions of this bill, the more I doubt if the government is really committed to the principle in this amendment, " he told peers.
Among other things, this amendment will result in Yahoo!
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"This amendment seeks to put specific restrictions on the ownership of Channel Five, which would create a concentration of power in any industry and in the communications industry it would constitute a threat to our democracy, " said Lord McNally.
This amendment has to receive a two-thirds (or more) majority of the vote in both the House and the Senate and then be ratified by the legislatures of 38 states before it can become part of the nation's fundamental law.
Under this amendment, victims of a violent crime would have to be notified of judicial proceedings, could attend all public proceedings and would be allowed to be heard at judicial hearings on such critical issues as bail, plea bargaining and sentencing.
Conservatives are also expected to vote for this amendment - which will set out the areas of tax policy that the two parties agree on while not committing the coalition to the idea of a mansion tax before the next general election.
This Amendment is retroactive.
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I'm not sure what the answer ought to be, but state legislatures need to tread very carefully and, to the extent this stuff does warrant legislation, propose laws rooted firmly in the actual research, not some legislator's unstudied opinions ( like this amendment recently introduced by West Virginia to ban a product that's not even available yet).
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"Regulatory officials in Wales continued to express strong reservations about the methodology, but at this late stage, recognising the need to reach agreement, as this option produced the least damaging impact on outcomes for Wales, Welsh Government officials reluctantly agreed to accept this amendment to the outcomes which resulted in an overall 3.9 percentage point fall in outcomes for Wales".
So my most fundamental concern about this particular amendment is it doesn't have any capacity, of which I am aware, to work.
But not all Democrats have signed off on this alternative amendment.
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