Cruz said doing so was "voting to raise taxes on low-income D.C. residents who are struggling to make ends meet". Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt). countered that allowing the amendment to proceed would be saying to D.C. that the federal government would tell them what to do.
It's almost hard to keep track of how many times the courts have criticized spy agencies for breaking their own rules, the law or the fourth amendment, and then allowed them to proceed unimpeded.
They said the proposed amendment would allow the project to proceed more quickly.
The other scenario being thrown around is that a Congressional amendment would allow the FCC to proceed with Net Neutrality for wired services like DSL or cable, but not for wireless.
Nick Xenophon, who was re-elected and will have three senators in the new parliament, voted in favour of the second reading to allow debate to proceed but proposed amendments on health and safety.
It would be unwise, she said, for the Clinton administration to proceed with very limited amendments to the ABM treaty that would restrict how the next president could deploy such a system.
"It shifts the paralysis from the motion to proceed onto the early amendments," said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore).. "The heart of the current paralysis, the silent, secret filibuster, is not addressed by the Levin-McCain proposal".
A clause in the state labor law known as the Triborough Amendment allows contract provisions for all workers to proceed until a new contract is reached.
Why don't the good government groups in our country convene a meeting to discuss how best to proceed with a constitutional amendment limiting the amounts of money that can be raised from any one individual, corporation or union and spent in any election for public office by candidates and their supporters?
These provisions could have been stripped from the bill through the amendment process if the Republicans had allowed it to proceed.
McConnell agreed to limit filibustering on motions to proceed, while Reid promised to cut back on "filling the amendment tree".
