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He co-sponsored an amendment to stop the administration from opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.

He battled for a constitutional amendment to stop the expansion of campaign spending, spurred by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010.

So much so that there were more Tory MPs who signed an amendment to stop the flood of Romanians and Bulgarians coming into our country after 1 January than there were Romanians and Bulgarians who actually came into the country after 1 January.

"They are throwing students out of the opportunity to seek a college education," said Senator Jon S. Corzine, the New Jersey Democrat who wrote the amendment to stop the changes last year, and introduced a similar provision this year that did not survive the conference committee.

Paradoxically, the same legislation also contained another amendment to stop the federal government from interfering with state medical marijuana industries.

Just last week, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on a constitutional amendment to stop the federal government from undertaking deficit spending even during emergency periods of extreme unemployment.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) introduced an amendment to stop this flow of funds completely, which would greatly mitigate the U.S. Military's role in Syria, but her provision was blocked by the Committee.

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who famously dissented in Citizens United, has outlined an amendment to stop this abusive strategy in his book Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.

"I'm an urban guy," Schumer noted, "but nobody on the Agriculture Committee was doing anything to stop it, and so I got on the floor and put in an amendment to stop it". The amendment drew Schumer into six months of back room negotiations that eventually produced compromise legislation on farm subsidies.

He was particularly proud of his successful amendment to stop funds for the bombing of Cambodia.

Yesterday, Johnson voted against the Cooper amendment and against Tory Caroline Spelman's non-binding amendment to stop a no deal, and abstained on Grieve.