Sentence examples for offering amendments from inspiring English sources
MINORITY AMENDMENTS Harry Reid, the majority leader, frequently prevents Republicans from offering amendments because he fears they will lead to more opportunities to filibuster.
Republicans say they mount filibusters because they are precluded from offering amendments.
A move to bar Democrats from offering amendments or substitutes passed, 218 to 213.
Offering amendments that threaten to withdraw funding unless more troops are added.
The majority party can use procedures that deprive the minority of offering amendments.
Republicans complained about the way the bill was handled and that they would be prohibited from offering amendments.
Democratic senators managed for two days to stave off passage of the legislation by offering amendment after amendment and requiring more than 40 roll-call votes.
Mr. Ashcroft's record of frequently offering constitutional amendments, including an amendment to streamline the process of altering the Constitution, suggests a radical approach to the nation's founding charter rather than a conservative approach to preserving it.
GUN AMENDMENTS Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, is considering offering two amendments that would restrict access to guns for undocumented immigrants.
In what is intended as a slap at Mr. Obama, Republican legislators in a dozen states are offering "birther" amendments requiring political candidates to present bona fide birth certificates.
At the height of the market, developers couldn't file offering plan amendments quickly enough to keep up with price increases for their apartments.
