Sentence examples for failed amendments from inspiring English sources

In D.C., broken hearts end up as ubiquitous as failed amendments.

The difference is that when Governor Pawlenty was scoring conservative victories to cut spending, pass market-based health care reform and transform a supreme court from liberal to conservative, and was elected twice in a very blue state, Congresswoman Bachmann was giving speeches and offering failed amendments".

Last night, however, the House passed a single amendment to the military funding bill that did what the two failed amendments had attempted.

But his "yea" vote simply meant that amendment lost by a margin of 17to1919 rather than the 16 to 20 score recorded by the other dozen failed amendments.

One of Ellison's failed amendments would have explicitly banned "kickbacks and unearned fees".

Over and over, he has belittled her as having done little of substance, making references to opponents who are "flapping their gums and offering failed amendments in Congress".

Surveillance isn't entirely a traditional liberal issue, as many Democrats for voted for and against Representative Amash's failed amendment to halt mass spying.

Each of the 13 supported riders and a failed amendment that would have expanded the $61 billion cut bill.

Cruz was one of a handful of Republicans who voted in favor of the failed amendment last week, but he has advocated for a religion-based admission process for refugees ever since the terror attacks in Paris last month.  .

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When that failed — the amendment was ratified in 1868 — they tried to get universal suffrage incorporated into the Fifteenth Amendment; that failed, too.