Sentence examples for amendments offered from inspiring English sources

The Senate rejected several proposed amendments offered by Republicans to cut the spending level in the bill.

Many of the amendments offered by the Republicans in the budget fight this week seek to curtail myriad regulations that they say stifle business.

The bill will again need 60 votes to end the debate after consideration of contentious amendments offered by both supporters and opponents of new laws.

He said he would offer his bill to the full Senate, but it will be only one of dozens of amendments offered.

Some Republicans said the amendments, offered mostly by Democrats, were mostly meaningless, good for nothing more than 60-second commercials in election campaigns.

Representative Howard P. McKeon of California, the committee's ranking Republican, praised the bill, even as he criticized Democrats for blocking amendments offered by Republicans.

Another was an amendment offered last summer by Senator John McCain for a $5.4 billion, three-year pilot program offering one million children $2,000 vouchers.

"The amendment offered by the senator from Oklahoma makes a mockery of this Senate," Baucus declared.

Many Democrats, even moderates, have raised skepticism about any balanced budget amendment offered by a Republican.

The first amendment offered was a proposal to eliminate more than $18 million from the Pentagon budget.

An amendment offered by Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, would bar any financing of Planned Parenthood.