Sentence examples for democratic amendments from inspiring English sources

The drilling bill was approved 263 to 163, with 28 Democrats joining unanimous Republicans, after the majority swatted down several Democratic amendments.

Last week, Senate Republicans -- with White House backing -- handed Democrats a series of defeats on the 2003 budget, beating back Democratic amendments to increase spending for domestic security programs, among others.

But he has sporadically backed Democratic amendments to change the bill.

It was just a matter of when, as the Senate defeated a handful of Democratic amendments.

Senators voted all day on dozens of Democratic amendments, each of which was defeated.

Ms. Landrieu recently voted for his domestic security bill and against Democratic amendments that he opposed.

For the next several months, Hagel tried to persuade enough Republicans to vote for a similar Democratic amendment, so that Republicans and Democrats together would reach sixty votes — the number required to prevent a filibuster.

On Tuesday, it survived a Democratic amendment only because Vice-President Dick Cheney used his casting vote.

One Democratic amendment would ban the military from sponsorship of Nascar race cars.

A Democratic amendment reasserted the limitation on "cross-ownership" by stations and newspapers.

Another Democratic amendment to the $447 billion military spending bill seemed much more sensible.