Sentence examples for * voted against the amendment from inspiring English sources

A greater percentage of men than women voted against the amendment.

Pelosi, a former House intelligence committee chairwoman, voted against the amendment.

Senator Michael B. Enzi, Republican of Wyoming, voted against the amendment.

"I hope those who voted against the amendment will think about what they are doing".

Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, who has been a supporter of abortion rights, also voted against the amendment.

The majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, and the minority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, voted against the amendment but for the bill.

Mr. Hultgren voted against the monuments amendment and against barring money for government projects that require a union agreement.

Both MPs voted against the Labour amendment at 10pm, which called for "compelling evidence" that the Assad regime was behind the chemical attack.

Two other Democrats, Senators Thomas R. Carper of Delaware and Bill Nelson of Florida, voted against the first amendment, but supported the second.

In 1993, he voted against the Hyde Amendment to the welfare law, which would have banned federal financing of abortion services for the poor except in cases of rape or incest, or when the mother's like was in danger.

Supporters of Mr. Gore in Los Angeles said he voted against the 1990 amendment because it might have killed an underlying bill to ban nine types of assault weapons, a bill that Mr. Gore supported.