Sentence examples for competing amendment from inspiring English sources

A competing amendment, by Republican Susan Collins of Maine, would impose a fiduciary duty on brokers who advise individuals but with a loophole especially for brokers at insurance companies that sell proprietary products.

A competing amendment that would establish a plan to close the facility, introduced by a Democrat, failed.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash)., who offered a competing amendment to create a plan to close Gitmo, found the new restriction especially ironic, noting that federal authorities believe the Yemeni detainees are safe enough to be set free.

The measure was the least stringent of three competing amendments intended to address climate change.

Democrats and Republicans had put forth competing amendments to both strengthen background checks and prevent suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.

The Collins plan seeks to bridge the gap between the two parties, who offered competing amendments on the terror watch list on Monday only to see both voted down.

With a dozen competing amendments on the issue and an omnibus spending bill separately awaiting consideration, Mr. Reid said he believed it would be difficult to give the wiretapping issue the close consideration that it deserved this week before the Senate leaves for its Christmas recess.

A pair of competing amendments by Republicans also failed.

Plaintiffs' argument for striking down BCRA's disclosure provisions does not reinforce the precious First Amendment values that Plaintiffs argue are trampled by BCRA, but ignores the competing First Amendment interests of individual citizens seeking to make informed choices in the political marketplace.

When legalized gambling was proposed in the Wichita area this year, the pastor who took the lead in rallying other clergy members to stop the measure was Michael Gardner of the First United Methodist Church, a mainline liberal who supports abortion rights and jousted with Fox over the same-sex marriage amendment on competing church telecasts.

Many of the two competing measures and 10 amendments drawn up by Republicans were intended to give cover to Republican moderates who once campaigned against big money so that they could say they were honoring their pledge even as they voted to kill the overhaul effort.