McConnell is asking GOP senators to approve a procedural motion on a House-passed health care bill, which will then allow him to bring up something else, after which senators will debate and vote on amendments to the something.
But in calling for a constitutional amendment to end discrimination – something Democrats have long been demanding – Arquette managed to re-animate a debate that has fallen flat in Congress "This Congress still needs to pass a law that makes sure a woman is paid the same as a man for doing the same work," President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union speech last month.
Her call for a constitutional amendment to reverse it, something that is highly unlikely to happen because it would require a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress and approval of three-quarters of the states, is giving way to talk of the type of Supreme Court justice she would appoint.
Congress plans to hold hearings this fall on a constitutional amendment to change that language, something even moderate Republican senators like South Carolina's Lindsey Graham support.
However, no children have yet been admitted into Britain under this so-called Dubs Amendment to the Immigration Act, something he hoped the government would soon remedy.
This philosophy was also at work last week in the House, when lawmakers approved the President's energy bill and rejected an amendment to raise fuel-efficiency standards — something the White House had opposed on the ground that the new standards were arbitrary.
"That was probably attributable to the fact that this was a floor amendment to a bill... and not something that I had an opportunity to study".
They have portrayed unfettered access to public tax-supported roads as something like a modern amendment to the rights of man.
(After three days of research, I finally came up with something: Baroness Hollis's amendment to the pensions bill, which ensures that women who have, through no fault of their own, not paid enough National Insurance to qualify for a full state pension will now be allowed to make one-off payments to bridge the gap).
Immediately after the 76-20 approval to move the bill forward, Mr. Reid said he would not allow any amendments to the bill, something Republicans oppose.
But, you know, the Constitution was written specifically –- the deal was that the states had certain rights under the 10th amendment, so when it comes to something like health care I think it makes perfect sense to be a federalist.
