In two amendments, Republicans on the Finance Committee tried to set new rules requiring proof of citizenship to receive government health benefits.
"Altogether, more than 60 senators voted in favor of four amendments that, to one degree or another, would restrain the E.P.A.'s power to regulate carbon emissions from farmers, manufacturers and power plants," Mr. McConnell said after the vote.
Prohibition's swift adoption came in part from unrelated causes (with four Amendments adopted in a decade, the 1910s were a period of remarkable Constitutional plasticity) and coincidence (German-American brewers were an easy target of xenophobia during World War I).
The labor board said, "The four amendments differ in language, but all conflict with federal law by closing off a well-established path to union representation recognized by the Supreme Court and protected by the National Labor Relations Act".
In all, seven amendments were tabled for Monday, and the Speaker, John Bercow, selected three.
The sporadic voting continued today as Mr. Edwards cast his first votes on the Medicare plan, weighing in on nine amendments.
The plant height in all five amendments was measured at 14-day intervals.
Originally, Social Security only provided retirement benefits to workers with a history of earned income, but in 1939, two amendments to the program extended benefits to dependents and survivors of those with earned Social Security benefits.
Following the Union victory in 1865, three amendments to the U.S. Constitution brought about the prohibition of slavery, gave U.S. citizenship to the nearly four million African Americans who had been slaves, and promised them voting rights.
The dispute involved her will, executed in 1979, and two amendments in 1983 and 1984.
