In the end, Amendment 4 easily crossed the state's 60percentthresholdld — a victory that should stand as a rebuke to decades of racial oppression, said Paulson.
In a later issue of Health Affairs, Senator Brownback wrote, "After reading their proposal in Health Affairs, I met with Ridley and colleagues to discuss the idea further, and I subsequently drafted an amendment... Indeed, their idea is the heart of my Elimination of Neglected Diseases (END) amendment" (Brownback 2007).
The idea was to circumvent the normal impediments, like the Senate's filibusters and never ending amendments, to achieve deficit reduction.
With the majority of state legislative sessions now ending, amendment supporters are looking to take their successes to Washington this summer.
In the end, the amendment was defeated, 62 to 35, largely along party lines.
But in the end, the amendment passed 62 to 36, drawing bipartisan support.
In the end the amendment, which would have allowed local voting officials to provide language assistance at the polls, was defeated 238 to 185.
While the public debate on the Defense Act was confusing and filled with misinformation, in the end an amendment to the act explicitly stated that the Defense Act does not change existing law on detention of individuals in the United States.
To this end, the Amendment ordained that all men should be entitled to the great basic rights: to the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, to due process of law, and to the equal protection of the laws.
Finally a compromise was achieved: there will be a council, but it will consist mainly of politicians, not professionals.In the end the amendment secured an overwhelming majority in the 225-seat assembly, with just one opposing ballot and a few absentees.
In the end, the amendment failed 205-217 -- a margin of only 12 votes.
