Supporters of civil unions stated they would not support the compromise, and a senator argued that "an amendment will kill it".
In United States v. Williams (1992), where the Court rejected a rule that would have required "substantial exculpatory evidence" to be presented to the grand jury, the defendant did not even argue a Fifth Amendment violation.
He was arguing for an amendment that would have restricted gun-carrying to establishments that got most of their income from serving food rather than alcohol.
Opponents argue that an amendment could hamstring the government at times that it needs to run deficits, comparing it, for example, to a situation in which families would be forbidden to get mortgages to buy homes.
Megyn Kelly, the moderator, had just played video clips of Cruz arguing that an amendment he'd introduced to the 2013 immigration-reform bill was good, because it would help get the larger law passed.
Today, on the floor of the House of Representatives, lawmakers who oppose the mall spent nearly an hour arguing for an amendment to strike down $28 million in state grants to build it -- and then pulled the amendment from consideration because of a lack of support.
Australian negotiators in Lima have been arguing against an amendment made two years ago in Doha about the exclusion of deforestation from the definition on emissions – a technical fight which could increase the emission reductions Australia needs to make by 2020 by a 2%.
However I believe that there is one situation where the use of psychoactive drugs is currently illegal, and I argue that an amendment to this bill gives us an opportunity to create some good in the world: this is the case of research use of drugs in universities and clinical institutes.
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, arguing for an amendment to strike a provision to bar suspects from challenging their detentions in court, said it "is as legally abusive of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution as the actions at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and secret prisons were physically abusive of detainees".
They also argue that an amendment giving Member States the flexibility to decide whether or not a snippet should be considered "insubstantial" (and thus freely shared) or not, does not clear up problems — saying it just risks causing fresh fragmentation across the bloc, at a time when the Commission is keenly pushing a so-called 'Digital Single Market' strategy.
