Sentence examples for push amendments from inspiring English sources

Democratic aides said that while the combined legislation would not have the public option, they expected that liberals would push amendments to add it on the Senate floor.

On Monday, Xenophon said his party would continue to push amendments to the ABCC bill including on occupational health and safety, buy-Australian procurement provisions in the building code and security of payments for subcontractors.

Murray said that Democrats plan to push "amendments that lay out our values and priorities," while shining a spotlight on the GOP's failings.

Orrin Hatch, a Senate Republican, and Vic Snyder, a House Democrat, are pushing amendments to rid the Constitution of the requirement that "No Person except a natural born Citizen... shall be eligible to the Office of President".

Evan Harris suggested the whole act be scrapped; Dominic Grieve suggested the Tories had been key in pushing amendments on the act, but Michael Wills insisted there must be some sanction for breaches of copyright, and suggested that at least the controversial three strikes rule did not criminalise people.

Sawant made headlines earlier this year for aggressively pushing amendments that would have given businesses a shorter phase-in period to match the new minimum wage requirement in Seattle.

For instance, centers would survive in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Missouri and Vermont, whose senators were sponsors of the postal bill or pushed amendments, according to the preliminary list obtained by The Associated Press.

When you do, what happens is that good policy is sabotaged into mediocre or bad policy - all in pursuit of meaningless political aesthetics (And the good news is that at least some congressional Democrats get this and are pushing amendments that move the economic stimulus bill in a far more progressive direction).

He suggested that his party would present its own platform on national security in the fall, and added that Liberals will push for amendments to C-51 to ensure government oversight.

Tory backbench MPs are pushing for amendments to the education bill to increase the number of selective schools in England.

He also said he would push an amendment allowing citizens to propose referendums on campaign finance issues.