Mr. Reid agreed and inserted a provision for the federal government to pay Nebraska's new Medicaid costs indefinitely.
In 1991, he inserted a provision into the N.I.H. appropriations bill requiring the institutes to create an Office of Alternative Medicine, with a $2 million budget.
But Congress quickly inserted a provision in an appropriations bill that effectively prohibited the import of chickens processed in China, with lawmakers citing unclean conditions.
But it dropped the idea early last year when Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, inserted a provision into an appropriations bill barring any such ranking.
Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.
The measure stalled after Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, inserted a provision that would prevent anti-abortion protesters from escaping their court-imposed fines by declaring bankruptcy.
Representative Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat from New York, had inserted a provision in a spending bill urging the E.P.A to undertake the study.
At the behest of the airlines, House Republicans inserted a provision in the F.A.A. reauthorization bill to undo the rule change.
In 1976 Congress revised copyright law, inserting a provision that allows musicians and songwriters to regain control of work initially registered with the United States Copyright Office after Jan . 1 , 1978
Senate aides inserted a provision in the "fiscal cliff" bill to help Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company, evade Medicare cost-cutting controls.
