The phrase "amendment money" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing financial adjustments or changes related to amendments, such as in legal or governmental settings.
Example: "The committee allocated amendment money to address the budget shortfall."
Alternatives: "adjustment funds" or "revised funding".
But it should not and indeed cannot under the First Amendment withhold money as a way of dictating the content of art.
The amendment authorizes money for historic preservation, so how about sending a few million to find a home for the battleship New Jersey?
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.
But politicians who talk up "libertarian populism" or "opportunity conservatism" or the "Rawlsian lens" and then end by calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment, hard money and a flat tax aren't actually reforming the Republican Party; they're just wrapping losing ideas in slightly smarter rhetoric than poor Mitt Romney was ever able to come up with.
The latest amendment adding money for risk pools also doesn't change the broader impact of the AHCA, which would cause 24 million Americans to join the ranks of the uninsured by 2026, including 14 million by next year, and most of them are covered by Medicaid for poor Americans, the Congressional Budget Office reported two months ago.
How can big interests and their apologists hide behind the First Amendment when money is literally property, not speech?
about how an amendment adding money to high-risk pools would affect his vote, he interrupted, raised his hand and said, "I'm just 'No.'".
I just care that we all make it to the finish line and pass an amendment banning money in the halls of Congress.
Congress earlier this year attached several controversial amendments, like money for a six-lane highway through Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico, to an earlier spending bill, despite the Administration's opposition.
The Lords continued to suggest amendments to money bills over which it had no right of veto and in several instances these were accepted by the Commons.
