Sentence examples for conservative amendments from inspiring English sources

Republicans have been taunting Democrats to finally assemble a budget just so they can force votes on conservative amendments likely to show up in campaign ads.

DealBook »   Export-Import Bank Extended by the Senate  |  Senators voted 78 to 20 to extend the life of the Export-Import bank by three years, denying a series of conservative amendments attacking the agency, The New York Times reports.

Senators crushed a series of conservative amendments intended to shrivel or kill off the bank, then passed the measure 78 to 20. "To those who want to end the bank, I think you're doing a great disservice to those in this country trying to sell their products overseas," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.

The 75 or so legislative supporters of a right to gay marriage, knowing they did not have enough votes for a majority, made use of a strategic gambit throughout the constitutional convention: many of them repeatedly voted for the amendment as it advanced through a series of preliminary votes, their goal being to keep more conservative amendments off the floor.

She recently explained to me that "I'm going to be a player" in writing conservative amendments to the Democratic health care legislation — that "it would hurt me if people thought I was quitting when the most important issue of my entire Senate term comes out".

He added: "We have got sponsorship, but sponsors have been increasingly difficult to find after nine years of austerity so it leaves us with a shortfall, which this council pays for". The Conservative amendments were defeated by 44 votes to 11, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

Then Representative Sue Myrick, Republican of North Carolina, persuaded the House to pass the Senate version -- beating back a potentially fatal conservative amendment.

The Conservative amendment is backed unanimously.

But at the January meeting, while there were many conservative political amendments, there were only a few religion amendments.

"If conservative Republican amendments are made in order, that's the focus for us," Jordan said.

Under Shorten, federal Labor has taken a strong stand against watering down discrimination laws in a way that would allow discrimination against LGBTI people, including voting against all the conservatives' substantive amendments to the marriage law.