Sentence examples for demanding an amendment from inspiring English sources

And so he has been banging on his desk for the last few days, demanding an amendment to restore that funding.

Demanding an amendment, however, comes with its own set of problems, because conservative Democrats could then demand their own amendments related to abortion and other issues that would garner enough GOP support to pass.

Two of the most extreme Republican senators, Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida, demanded an amendment to defund health-care reform.

I believe that the Citizens United decision will go down as one of the worst in our country's history – and one that demands an amendment to our Constitution in order to restore sovereign power to the people, as our nation's founders intended.

The same day that the Supreme Court handed down its McCutcheon decision, demonstrators in more than 150 cities and towns took to the streets to demand an amendment.

But Dennis Kucinich is taking a drubbing for doing what more progressives should be doing: standing up for a public option as part of the health reform bill, and demanding an ERISA amendment.

Eventually, they passed a plan, demanding a constitutional amendment, that stood even less chance than the no-hoper Boehner had originally come up with.

And she called out Republicans for demanding a new amendment that would impose broad "mens rea" reform that would bar prosecutors from pursuing a wide array of corporate offenses, including gross negligence by CEOs.

There will be no Commons vote on a rebel Tory amendment demanding an extension of immigration control on Romanian and Bulgarian migrants before January 1, it emerged today.

Demanding a balanced budget amendment thus is more of a symbolic gesture than a real solution to America's fiscal crisis.

In reaction to these developments, some social conservatives in the U.S. demanded a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.