Sentence examples for a failed amendment from inspiring English sources
Each of the 13 supported riders and a failed amendment that would have expanded the $61 billion cut bill.
But he supported a failed amendment that would have paid for the supplement by repealing tax cuts for the wealthy.
"This is what the science community wants us to do," said Sanders of a failed amendment that would have reduced emissions by 80% in 2050, relative to 1990 levels.
The ad refers to a vote on a failed amendment to a nonbinding budget resolution.
The congressman voted against reauthorization of the Patriot Act and last month voted for a failed amendment to strip the NSA of funding for phone surveillance programs.
In an interview with Bloomberg's Dave Weigel, Fraternal Order of Police executive director Jim Pasco mockingly referred to Hank Johnson the Democratic Congressman who introduced a failed amendment in the House of Representatives aimed at stymieing the flow of militarized equipment to local departments as a "real scholar" and "whasisname from Georgia".
Surveillance isn't entirely a traditional liberal issue, as many Democrats for voted for and against Representative Amash's failed amendment to halt mass spying.
Last night, however, the House passed a single amendment to the military funding bill that did what the two failed amendments had attempted.
In D.C., broken hearts end up as ubiquitous as failed amendments.
But his "yea" vote simply meant that amendment lost by a margin of 17to1919 rather than the 16 to 20 score recorded by the other dozen failed amendments.
One of Ellison's failed amendments would have explicitly banned "kickbacks and unearned fees".
