"The amendments would in effect give a preference to European companies over American companies, even though American companies have demonstrated the same commitment to improving worker safety in Bangladesh," the letter stated.
In fact, requesting a split vote on an amendment is in effect tabling a new amendment, i.e. tabling an amendment on an amendment.
In the face of fierce public criticism, the two peers took the unusual step of amending their amendment but in the bill's third reading in the House of Lords on Monday their amendment was in effect removed from the final bill.
In the film, two of Connecticut's representatives are shown voting against the 13th Amendment – voting, in effect, for slavery to continue.
The emergence of a hypersecretive ethic in national politics coincided with the very public erosion of Fourth Amendment protections — in effect transferring the right to privacy from individuals to government itself.
Buoyed by record oil income in 2008, Mr Bouteflika boosted infrastructure spending, reversed tentative steps to free the economy and secured constitutional amendments that, in effect, granted him the presidency for life.Last year Mr Bouteflika restricted imports, hurting some well-connected businessmen.
The "personhood amendment" would have in effect outlawed abortion in the state.
On Aug. 26, 1920, eight days after it had been ratified, the 19th Amendment was declared in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, giving female citizens the right to vote in all American elections.
That outcome is better than an earlier Senate amendment that would, in effect, have excluded trade rules from fast-track; but it is a measure of how much America's lawmakers care about the issue.The biggest Democratic victory is a big expansion of assistance to American workers hurt by freer trade.
Had the Twenty-fifth Amendment not been in effect, Nixon would not have been able to replace Agnew, and it remains speculative whether Nixon would have resigned prior to impeachment and a trial and thus enabled the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives to become president under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.
