It was amended. The new bill would simply close all places in the District of Columbia where slaves were bought and sold.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Democrats in Congress say spending for the new bill will not add to the federal budget deficit.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

When Congress met in eighteen fifty-three, it considered a new bill on Nebraska.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The new bill promised jobs including many in the nuclear energy industry.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Then they approved a new bill.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

That bill would not create an independent consumer agency, but instead a new office at the Federal Reserve, the central bank.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The Californian band the Byrds was among the groups Bill Graham presented at the new space he called Fillmore West.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

A bill to place new restrictions on the credit card industry in the United States won final approval this week in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Bill and his men had so many cattle that they needed all of New Mexico to hold them.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The new Congress passed a civil service bill that required ten percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Democrats attached the new hate crimes legislation to a major defense bill that had to be passed.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The bill did not clearly say if slavery would be legal,or illegal, in the two new territories.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But there is no final bill. And the Democrats have a new problem hey had not expected.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

And on California and New Mexico, the bill proposed this: they could be organized as territories.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The new Kansas-Nebraska bill, he said, simply recognized the fact that the Missouri compromise was dead.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Unlike Bill Clinton, the new president has left the details of forming a plan to Congress.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Bill Clinton was taken to a New York hospital last Thursday and released the next day.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

But Congress did not consider the proposal when it began debating a new tariff bill.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Twelve years later,during President Benjamin Harrison's administration, Congress passed a new silver purchase bill.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

That bill would create a new consumer financial protection agency.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The jobs bill allocates money to the states. From New York State, Yonkers will receive $6.5 million, which will save 90 teachers.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Like a measure in the House, the $871 billion Senate bill would create new private insurance marketplaces,or exchanges, to expand choices for Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

He said Pakistan's new democracy needs the funding to build roads, improve health care and combat poverty, and called for the bill's swift approval.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Author,educator and environmental activist Bill McKibben offers some advice in his new book on how to live on what he calls our "tough new planet."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The insurance industry would come under new regulation under the bill, which would ban the practice of denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

In an area where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the unemployment rate has risen above the national average, Mr.Obama called on Congress to pass a new job-creation bill.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

House-Senate negotiations aimed at reconciling the two versions of the bill are not expected to begin until the new year, although informal contacts are likely already under way.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24