The Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, said he would vote for the legislation, though he criticized McConnell for not allowing amendments to the bill.
Jeremy W. Peters explains that Republicans have tentatively agreed to a framework for changes that would speed up procedure in the Senate in exchange for a concession from Democrats on allowing amendments to bills once they reach the floor.
In the Senate, Democrats have closed down much of the longstanding process of allowing amendments to bills, which has enraged Republicans, who then often turn those bills away via filibuster.
Reflecting on this year's session, Senator William Aniskovich, a Republican from Branford, criticized Democrats specifically for allowing amendments to the sheriff's bill that left it "open to the vagaries of an election in November".
"If Senator Levin and Republicans support allowing amendments to clear with 51 votes, they should then be in favor of all legislation passing with 51 votes".
As long as Republicans remained determined to gut the Affordable Care Act, Democrats won't give them an opening by even allowing amendments to the law.
Finally, the Directory can potentially allow critical evaluation of the ACT/RCPCH categories themselves, allowing amendments and improvements to what has become the standard definition of what constitutes a 'life-limiting condition'.
But, he said, while some bylaws permit amendment only by shareholder vote, others allow amendment by a vote of the board.
If reviewers rejected the last allowed amendment, researchers had no choice but to start over with a new idea, or with a very significant reconfiguration of the old idea.
If anything is to change in the bill, it would have to happen before then, and House leaders would have to agree to allow amendment votes.
