Sentence examples for during the amendment from inspiring English sources

"One of the reasons I voted against the 2007 immigration bill was because it turned into an unworkable mess during the amendment process," said Mr. Harkin, who worried that the new border security measures to attract Republicans could repel Democrats.

Even during the amendment's brief early run, no Washington official dared to go south to enforce it — but that was Doar's job in the 1960s.

The parties agreed to stay enforcement of the law during the amendment process.

Ratified by Congress in June 1919 and 36 states during 1919 20, the amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution on August 26 , 1920 marking an end to a 72-year struggle.

The "executive order creates a huge new bureaucracy at a time when we're trying to grow our economy," Flores said yesterday during debate over the amendment.

"The overly broad and almost 15-years-old [authorization] represents a major and very concerning deterioration of congressional oversight," Lee said during debate over the amendment on the House floor.

Mr. Bloomberg's comments found a receptive audience on the campus, which had held multiple rallies against the amendment during the campaign, and which is located in one of a handful of counties that voted against it.

Joel Seidemann, an assistant district attorney, dissected several drafts of a memo that Mr. Whitaker wrote, describing what happened during the signing of the amendment.

A Democratic staffer for a pro-Amash legislator said Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, over-stated the impact of the amendment during a Wednesday morning meeting with members, saying it would "completely defund the surveillance programs," when it only dealt with the bulk surveillance NSA conducts under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

Many of them hope to make changes to the amendment during negotiations with the Senate, which will now become the main battleground in the health care fight as Democrats there ready their own bill for what is likely to be extensive floor debate.

Reid is unlikely to allow a vote on the amendment during a crowded Senate schedule.