David Roe, a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, describes the efforts to attach the bill as a rider as "a nasty little sneak attack".
Southern senators defeated their northern counterparts' efforts to attach basic civil liberties such as habeas corpus and a right to a trial by jury to the law: these rights, they reasoned, did not apply to property, only to citizens.
In his efforts to attach democratic trappings to his dictatorship, he has given the mullahs a lead role in running the country.
Bad weather overnight hampered efforts to attach cables to the ferry for towing.
So far, Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, both Democrats, have scuttled Republican efforts to attach the proposal onto unrelated legislation where critics would get little opportunity to amend its punitive provisions.
Efforts to attach dollar figures to human life offend some people, but governments and courts do it often for insurance cases, disability payments, safety regulation and so forth.The Chicago economists treat these in a similar way to Mr Wallsten and Ms Kosec, attaching a cost to every soldier killed in Iraq of $6m-7m 6m-7m
According to Latino Decisions' weekly tracking poll, Senate Democrats' efforts to attach the DREAM Act to the Defense bill in September won them some points with Latino voters, although for some it may be too little too late.
These provisions are generally referred to as Blaine amendments, after the sponsor of a failed effort to attach such an amendment to the federal Constitution in 1875.
Much of this week has been devoted to a stalemate over $825 million in emergency firefighting money and efforts by Republicans to attach a plan to thin national forests to reduce the threat of fires.
