Sentence examples for attaching it as from inspiring English sources
The bill has been referred to the sleepy Rules and Administration Committee, though Democrats have tools available to force action on it — including by attaching it as an amendment to a must-pass bill.
Kilroy said she's looking for the quickest way to get the bill into law and is considering attaching it as an amendment to a moving vehicle.
The Senate passed the bill again in September, this time attaching it as a rider to a bank holding company bill sought by Patman.
The industry tried to get a straight up or down vote on the Citibank legislation, to no avail, so attaching it as a rider to the budget bill -- the non-transparent route -- was clearly preferable.
Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, has blocked it from a vote by the full Senate, but its sponsors are trying to attach it as a rider to an appropriations bill, and it could pass unnoticed in the last weeks of Congress, when so much legislation is pushed through.
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Senator D'Amato does not have enough support to get his bill out of committee, so he has promised to attach it as an amendment to another bill this year.
He tried but failed to attach it as a policy rider to the continuing resolution to fund the government that was agreed to in a last-minute budget deal last week.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and a sponsor of the bill, attached it as an amendment to the military authorization legislation that the Senate last month put off until September.
He has also promised that if the Senate is not allowed to vote on McCain-Feingold, he will attach it as an amendment to the first bill that comes up for a vote.
House ways and means chairman Charlie Rangel has a bill to raise taxes on private equity carried interest, but he has delayed voting because he wants to attach it as a payment mechanism for larger legislation - most likely a comprehensive overhaul of the alternative minimum tax, which, lacking an inflation index, every year takes a larger bite out of middle-class wallets.
