Sentence examples for offering an amendment from inspiring English sources

"How serious could they be, offering an amendment dealing with Viagra for rapists?" Mr. Reid asked.

Last October, when another energy bill came to the floor, I tried again by offering an amendment.

He voted against $87 billion to pay for extra costs -- after offering an amendment to raise the money by increasing taxes on the wealthy.

In fact, he helped lead the floor fight against it, offering an amendment that supporters of campaign finance legislation say was intended to sabotage it.

Mr. Bennett said he was considering offering an amendment to his bill that would require payment for antibiotic treatment for at least 60 days.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, did not rule out offering an amendment seeking additional money for high-risk cities when the matter comes to the floor in the Senate.

"This restriction has become an anachronism that is decidedly un-American," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), said in offering a constitutional amendment to repeal it more than a decade ago.

"We may not agree on the solutions, on the paths forward, or even on some of the details, but I do believe it's time for us to begin to agree on a basic set of facts," said Senator Brian Schatz (D HI), who is offering a climate amendment, on the Senate floor today.

He has proposed an alternative bill that he is offering as an amendment.

That's why we support the Support Making Assessments Reliable and Timely (SMART) Amendment, which Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) and Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) are offering as an amendment to the Senate's Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization, the Every Child Achieves Act.

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.