If one Democrat offered a public option amendment, 58 other Democrats would want to offer amendments on their pet issues.
In the end, Republicans said they would not offer a public option amendment, perhaps out of concern it actually might be approved.
and John Rockefeller (D-W.Va)., who both pushed a public option amendment that failed in a committee vote last Tuesday.
"Corporations are not going out of their way to profit from this kind of music". --Sister Souljah and Ice Cube's "Code of Silence" Despite the music industry's current staunch public First Amendment stance on the "Cop Killer" issue, industry insiders say free speech is still a relative concept at most record labels.
My proposal for initiative and ref erendum is indirect; the entire deliberative process of the Legislature, committee meetings, hearings, public debate, amendments, would be fully utilized.
One problem: The tents are in the middle of a public, 1st Amendment-protected university quad.
On a committee this conservative, far more conservative than the Senate as a whole, if we only get seven votes for the public option amendments, that would have to be considered a major political victory, and a sign that the public option can definitely get a majority vote on the floor.
According to the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, the crown lands amendment (public ownership of beaches and public land) bill had been tabled without consultation.
"My job is to put together a bill that will become law," Baucus told the committee before voting "no" on two public-option amendments on Tuesday.
The Sixth Amendment public trial right is held by the defendant, and the excluded public have no ability to assert it.
