Sentence examples for amendment up for from inspiring English sources

The amendment up for Senate debate would roll back Supreme Court rulings on campaign finance from the 1976 Buckley v. Valeo decision that first applied First Amendment free speech protection to money raised and spent in elections.

Does anyone really think that if the President really wanted the Volcker rules included in the financial reform bill, he couldn't have twisted arms to have Chris Dodd include it in the original Senate bill, or to have Dodd and Harry Reid bring the Merkley-Levin Amendment up for a vote?

After they were finished, Leahy announced that he wouldn't put the amendment up for a vote, thus saving the bill.

In the end, Leahy declined to put his amendment up for a vote at the committee level, thus saving the bill, but he recently said he wanted a vote on the amendment before the full Senate.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Gramm disputed that suggestion and said that Mr. Gramm left Washington this morning to inspect flood damage in Texas before Mr. Levin tried to bring his amendment up for debate.

Tester already tried to lock down the matter last month when he made it clear he planned to bring his amendment up for a vote while the Senate was debating a small business bill.

Just before the amendment was up for a vote in the House, lobbyists from Monsanto and a trade group called the Biotechnology Industry Organization, or BIO, suddenly expressed their unease about it.

By the time the 18th Amendment was up for consideration, however, Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee denounced the prohibition movement as being founded on an "absolutely false principle" and as trying to undermine the Church's "most sacred mystery," the Eucharist, and he forbade pastors in his archdiocese from assisting the movement but suggested they preach on moderation.

The amendment is up for debate in the Senate, though it is seen as unlikely to pass.

The full Senate will have a chance to put the nation's security needs ahead of a bogus job program when the Levin-McCain amendment comes up for a vote in the next few days.

A counterargument is offered by Nate Cohn of The New Republic, who suggested that the N.R.A.'s power to influence elections may be overblown — or at least that it shouldn't outweigh other electoral considerations when a bill as apparently popular as Mr. Manchin and Mr. Toomey's amendment comes up for a vote.