Sentence examples for committees amendments from inspiring English sources

In committees, amendments must command a majority to be approved.

A bill is introduced and then Congress works through the process of committees, amendments, and debates and almost always the final bill is different from when it started.

Any firearm which has been converted to firing blanks continues to be covered by EU law, due to the risks associated with them, under the committee amendments.

Senator Chambliss, whose state is home to Lockheed Martin's primary manufacturing plant for the F-22, sponsored the committee amendment adding the seven planes, which was approved by a 13-to-11 13-to-11 13-to-11

Upon the strenuous objection of the truckers claiming conflict between this law and the Fair Labor Standards Act, the bill (i.e., the committee amendment) restores the law to the present provisions of the Motor Carrier Act.' S.Rep.

28 While the original committee amendment to the Act would have required the Secretary to limit California's appropriations, the debates evidence no conviction that the Secretary had even a permissive authority to do so by virtue of the unamended § 5. THE BEARING OF OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE PROJECT ACT.

[I]nterruptions of the reading of an amendment that has been proposed are not in order, even for the purpose of proposing a substitute amendment to a committee amendment which is being read.

It's not subject to committee amendment, and it gets a guaranteed 90-day vote with no amendments". The lawsuits we are seeing in Maui and Vermont would pale compared to the power that TPP would have to overturn the will of local, state, and national voters.

Fast Track then empowered the executive branch to write legislation to change any U.S. law needed to conform to the agreement terms, avoid congressional committee amendment processes and directly submit legislation for a no-amendment, limited-debate vote, which was guaranteed within 60 days of submission.

Committees, constitutional amendments, constitutional revision.

The Republican proposals were moved through the normal process of hearings, committees and amendments.