Sentence examples for finance amendment from inspiring English sources

Some groups are advocating a campaign finance amendment to the constitution.

"I will be running on solid issues, which talk about the collapse of the middle class, the need to develop policies that protect working people, dealing with income and wealth inequality, national health-care and all that stuff". And yes, he said, the failure of the campaign finance amendment is likely to be a subject of conversation this weekend.

The campaign finance amendment was an orphan, and that is telling.

But, he cautioned, the finance amendments would still have to pass the full Senate before he will throw his support behind the bill.

He said that if he is able to pass his high-tech amendments in the committee, he would agree to holding back his four finance amendments and offering them later on the Senate floor.

The campaign financing amendments, he said, have flaws -favoring special interest donations over individual contributions, for example -that diminish the character of Congress but now seem impervious to change by a Congress elected under them.

David Cameron confirmed in March he would end the VAT charge after facing a backbench rebellion backing a Labour finance bill amendment to introduce a zero rate.

McCain himself once successfully attached a campaign finance reform amendment to a defense appropriations bill, arguing that it was relevant because better campaign finance would give our men and women in uniform more confidence in the democracy they were fighting for.

With the elimination of a two-party system beholden to corporate coffers, there will be no need for a campaign finance reform amendment.

Findings should be reflected in a mission aide-memoire, an implementation progress report in the format of the financing agency, amendments to the work plan and, where necessary, to the project implementation manual.

But there were no policy prescriptions for campaign finance reform, constitutional amendments, or even the defiance to work around Congress that characterised last year's address when Obama promised executive action in place of stalled legislation.