After the vote, David Bishop, Democrat of West Babylon, offered an amendment that sought to overcome the objections.
The narrow defeat in the House on Wednesday of an amendment that sought to end the National Security Agency's blanket collection of phone logs appeared to have an immediate impact on Capitol Hill.
By a vote of 237 to 171 that largely split lawmakers along regional lines, the House rejected an amendment that sought to shift $446 million from a nationwide antiterrorism program to one specifically aimed at New York City and other high-risk cities.
But the invitation to Mr. Ney was canceled after he voted on Friday against an amendment that sought to shift $446 million from a nationwide antiterrorism program to one specifically aimed at New York City and other high-risk urban areas, according to people who were scheduled to attend the event.
But Democrats were concerned that a simple majority vote would allow Republicans to propose a controversial amendment that seeks to deny 9/11 health benefits to illegal immigrants.
But Mr. Romney managed to sidestep the issues at hand, refusing to address legislation that limits collective bargaining rights and a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to exempt Ohioans from the mandates in President Obama's national health care law.
A "The bylaw amendment that seeks to prevent shareholders from voting if they are in arrears or in violation of building rules violates a provision of the New York State Business Corporation Law," said Arthur I. Weinstein, a Manhattan lawyer who is a vice president of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums.
When Mrs. Clinton took a stand on the matter last year — co-sponsoring legislation that would have criminalized the desecration of the American flag even as she opposed a constitutional amendment that sought to achieve the same end — she was pilloried from the left.
It is, for all intents and purposes, the first amendment that sought to correct or at least clarify a seemingly concrete element of the Constitution.
As the debate unfolded through the afternoon and into the evening, lawmakers from the region found themselves on the defensive at times, forced to beat back a barrage of amendments that sought to cut items out of the overall package or that demanded cuts in other programs to pay for the package.
