Sentence examples for amendment a proposal from inspiring English sources
Senator John McCain of Arizona offered the first Republican amendment: a proposal to remove provisions intended to slow the rise in government spending on Medicare.
Negotiations had been completed on ironing out the differences between the House and Senate versions of the final legislation, but they were reopened after Republicans objected to some last-minute amendments; a proposal to impose a tax on banks and hedge funds was subsequently removed.
He introduced an (ultimately losing) amendment curtailing a proposal to award green cards based on a point system that valued education and job skills more than mere family ties.
"Senator Flake believes that the Grassley Amendment is a proposal that can pass both the Senate and the House and will greatly improve and strengthen our background check system".
The first amendment offered was a proposal to eliminate more than $18 million from the Pentagon budget.
"The 28th Amendment" refers to a proposal to limit spending on federal election campaigns.
The Senate has disposed of just one amendment, setting aside a proposal on border security by Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, that the bill's supporters saw as a threat to its passage.
This, despite the fact that the measure contained an amendment — modelled on a proposal by Lee — that would have allowed insurers to offer cheap, catastrophic care policies outside the Obamacare insurance exchanges, so long as they also offered a comprehensive option through the exchanges.
That would require several constitutional amendments, as would a proposal floated last week to remove the prohibition on the re-election of lawmakers and city mayors, a legacy of the 1917 revolution whose war cry was "Effective suffrage, no re-election!" He has promised to overhaul the educational system and to provide huge new credits to small businesses.
He defeated the Bricker amendment, a right-wing proposal to limit presidential treaty-making power, by allying himself with Eisenhower -- thereby making the Democrats look like Ike's real friends, a political masterstroke.
