The phrase "amendment hit" is not correct and does not appear to be a standard expression in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a specific event or action related to an amendment, but without context, its usage is unclear.
Example: "The recent amendment hit the legislative floor, sparking a heated debate among lawmakers."
Alternatives: "amendment impact" or "amendment effect".
But the Brooke Amendment would hit the nation's more than 3000 public housing authorities like a financial tsunami.
"Not only can we monitor how the project is going, and make amendments to hit deadlines should any issues arise, but [Tracker] allows the whole team to claim their involvement in the project and show them how important a part they play," says James Tibbles, head of development at Matmi.
Your book recounts the many times the First Amendment has taken a hit, starting with the Sedition Act of 1798, which made it a crime to publish criticism of President Adams.
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Even a widely popular bill that passed the Senate this week to prohibit insider trading by members of Congress, which Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, called "the most significant ethics legislation to pass Congress in years," hit snags over amendments.
Another amendment shifted money to hard-hit tuition assistance programs for military service members, a push championed by Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina, another swing-state Democrat up for re-election.
"Who in their right mind could be asking for something like this?" he said he remembers thinking when the measure hit the Senate floor, amendment attached.
Next in the frivolous constitutional hit parade is the Sixteenth Amendment, but it too will get you labeled as frivolous.
In a new S-1 amendment to its IPO filing, Twitter notes it hit 231.7 million monthly users by the end of Q3 2013, up 6.13% from 218.3 million at the end of Q2.
He hit McConnell for supporting a constitutional amendment to limit campaign fundraising and spending back in 1987 and now deriding the proposed amendment as an attempt to silence opponents.
