In a marathon session of the subcommittee today, Republicans defeated an array of Democratic amendments that would have tripled the Head Start budget, lowered the eligibility requirements and expanded services to migrant children with extra money.
The justices' questions today reflected their effort to decide where to slot this case into an array of First Amendment precedents that offer ammunition to both sides.
The plaintiffs had filed an array of First Amendment claims, asserting that the town's decision to abolish its police department last year was a retaliatory gesture for the former employees' speaking out on matters of public concern, including issues of public safety and waste of public money.
There are a bewildering array of amendments due to be debated after 3.30pm today, which our NHS blog will follow closely but before that David Cameron will be grilled during PMQs and Labour's questioning is likely to lead on the NHS.
Republicans — who have managed to lock down the Senate for much of the year with the threat of a filibuster — are prepared to strike out core provisions in the final legislation, by proposing an array of time-consuming amendments, and employing parliamentary challenges.
In addition, a group of freshman Democratic senators has proposed an amendment that includes an array of changes meant to further reduce health care spending, including added authority for a new commission charged with identifying savings in Medicare.
Senate procedure rules allowed for an array of useful tactics, such as stalling a bill with a swarm of amendments.
As slavery began to seem politically untenable, an array of Northern Democrats successively announced their support for the amendment, including Representative James Brooks, Senator Reverdy Johnson, and Tammany Hall, a powerful New York political machine.
I started my life in segregated schools in North Carolina and have seen up close the country's failure to protect an array of minorities and to implement the promises of the 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
