Sentence examples for senators attached from inspiring English sources
As Lieberman-Warner worked its way through the Senate environment committee, senators attached assorted riders: $800 billion over the life of the bill for tax refunds to help consumers pay for their higher electric bills, $1 billion for deficit reduction and billions more in handouts to state governments.
Even then, three Republican senators -- Jesse Helms, Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar -- attached so many reservations to the American signature that the convention would not meaningfully bind the United States to much of anything.
To continue walking that tightrope, Dole's aides suggest, the Senator must prevent hardline senators from attaching harsh conditions to the actual treaty (which would affect its substance and offend Moscow).
Senator Gramm attached a rider limiting the C.F.T.C.'s authority to an 11,000-page appropriations bill.
The senator had attached his proposal to the massive transportation bill to give it the best chance for passage.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who finds it a little bit suspicious that three of the senators who have attached their name to the amendment are sucking at the teat of AT&T.
On Tuesday night, Republican state senators had quietly attached a number of severe abortion restrictions to a bill that would ban the recognition of Sharia law in North Carolina family courts.
These rules will allow any senator to attach his or her name to a bill — previously, members of the majority party (the Republicans) could bump any member of the minority (the Democrats) as a sponsor.
He says it is illegal and has been winked at, citing one example: former Senator Phil Gramm attaching a plan to kill the Glass Steagall act as an amendment to a bill that then sailed through the Congress while his wife was on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission".
The move is certain to add to the perception that Mr. Obama has enjoyed uncommonly good relations with the news media – a perception that has also been attached to Senator John McCain, who has called reporters "my base".
" The Committee recognizes the increasing demand for industrial hemp for a variety of uses, and its growing importance as a crop for U.S. farmers," senators wrote in a report attached to legislation funding the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Fiscal Year 2019.
