Sentence examples for control amendments from inspiring English sources

The House passed a version of the legislation without the gun control amendments, and the bill is still in a House-Senate conference committee.

Two Democratic senators, Charles Schumer of New York and Richard Durbin of Illinois, are planning to step up the pressure by attaching gun control amendments to other legislation coming to the floor.

After the series of gun control amendments went down to defeat on Wednesday, Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, who played a central role in the early efforts to bring together a bipartisan coalition to support stronger background checks, said he did not see a viable path forward in the near term, but remained optimistic about the months ahead.

Now, South Africa's Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act of 1997, and the court challenge, are seen by many as an opportunity to step up pressure on the drug industry.

No other significant gun control amendment could muster 60 votes, and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, pulled it from the floor rather than press forward to a final filibuster vote that it could not overcome.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) regrets voting for a controversial birth control amendment by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo).

On Thursday, he is expected to force a vote on a gun control amendment during the Senate's debate on a bill repealing Obamacare. .

Sure, only 46 senators ultimately voted against extending background checks, but the fact that this relatively innocuous measure was the only gun control amendment that had a chance of passing indicates a broader epidemic of subservience to the gun lobby.

That may soon change, however, now that Mayor Bloomberg has proposed a series of new noise-control amendments.

The move avoided a battle over expected gun-control amendments days before a planned march in Washington by mothers opposed to gun violence.

"It doesn't mean we are going to go out there and offer 100 amendments and have a bunch of gun-control amendments," he said.