Sentence examples for threatening to attach from inspiring English sources

Mr. Brownback, irritated, is threatening to attach his bill as an amendment to other legislation to force a vote on it.

Republicans have provoked another veto warning by threatening to attach a school voucher program to a District of Columbia spending bill.

I don't care who you are". In his book, Coburn reserves his greatest contempt for Rep. Bud Shuster (R-Pa)., then chairman of the House Transportation Committee and a "grandmaster of pork". During his last year in Congress, Coburn nearly shut down the House by threatening to attach 130 amendments to an agriculture appropriations bill he thought was too larded up.

Speaker Newt Gingrich is considering creating a special select committee to investigate the transfer of advanced space technology to China, and House Republicans are threatening to attach amendments to the Pentagon's budget bill later this week that would bar the sale of commercial satellites and missile technology to China.

He delivered 400 babies while in the House and would still spend his weekends pulling them out if the Senate Ethics Committee hadn't decided that the profession of delivering babies was incompatible with the profession of kissing them.In 1999, Mr Coburn brought the House to a virtual standstill by threatening to attach 130 amendments to a bloated agriculture bill.

Nichols threatened to attach the trucks by legal process if the hay was picked up.

But Senate leaders shelved it when farm state lawmakers threatened to attach a rider on other agricultural issues.

Senate Democrats have threatened to attach their bill to other pieces of legislation in June and July, a pressure tactic that is not permitted in the House.

The bill's sponsors, Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, had threatened to attach it to other legislation headed for the floor, which could severely disrupt Senate action.

In 1980, Cesar Fierro received the death penalty on the strength of a confession secured after an El Paso sheriff colluded with police across the border in Juárez, Mexico, who arrested Fierro's parents and threatened to attach an electric generator to his stepfather's genitals.

They never threatened to attack.