One lawmaker, Mr. Cole said, told him that while he did not want to vote in favor of the bill, he also did not want to amend it and send it back to the Senate, where it might die and leave House Republicans blamed for tax increases.
He cannot complete a phrase, it seems, without doubling back to amend it or erase it or contradict it, while his sense of self slides between giggly complacency and pained doubts.
The breakup of Pakistan would be a costly and destabilizing development that can still be avoided, but only if the United States and other foreign donors use their enormous aid leverage to convince Islamabad that it should not only put the 1973 Constitution back into effect, but amend it to go beyond the limited degree of autonomy it envisaged.
According to Balazs expelling refugees to Serbia — a country Hungary considers to be "safe" after amending its asylum laws back in August — breaches Article Three of the European Convention On Human Rights, which forbids refoulement: the expulsion of people who have the right to be recognized as refugees back to their home country or any other country where they may be subject to persecution.
Of course, should the House pass such a bill, Senate Democrats could well send it back amended, with an unemployment component that is also free of payment obligations.
However, Edward M. Robbins Jr., the Beverly Hills lawyer who negotiated that no-time deal for Olenicoff, declared bluntly that the better procedure is to "quietly" file amended back returns, pay back taxes and interest, and see what happens.
In recent years, there have been several proposals to amend the deduction by scaling it back at the upper end.
It could amend the bill and send it back to the Senate.
The slavery provision's survival means that the House will either need to amend the bill and send it back to the Senate, which would cause a delay and complicate the House debate, or pass a bill and go to conference with the Senate, also causing a delay.
