Sentence examples for to kill a bill from inspiring English sources

"There's more than one way to kill a bill," he said.

"I've never seen him work harder to kill a bill," said Collins.

Early last winter, Republicans repeatedly tried to kill a bill to provide relief for states ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.

"It's both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America's veterans back to work," Ms. Murray said in a statement.

But Mr Bowers thinks progressives can turn the table by pulling together and threatening to kill a bill unless the moderates compromise.

But they could not be seen as voting against it, so they used one of Congress's many methods to kill a bill without appearing to have done so.

Another 33 Liberals defied Mr Martin and voted with the Conservatives to kill a government bill recognising same-sex marriage.

That's an insider's way to kill a political bill; a longstanding tradition prevents either chamber from voting on the other chamber's political map first.

WHEN a band of Texan Democrats fled to Oklahoma in May to kill a redistricting bill, by denying the state's House of Representatives its necessary quorum, it seemed that their foundering party had pulled off a rare victory.

A snub from Kabila Sudanese contradictions Turabi down but not out The zapping of Iraq ReprintsThe conservatives' boldest onslaught came on August 6th, when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khomeini's successor as the country's supreme leader, ordered reformist members of parliament to kill a proposed bill that would have gone some way towards reviving the banned newspapers.

And this is so even though gun control is fairly popular and the Democrats think they can use the result to embarrass Republicans at election time.Similarly, if just two Republicans can threaten to kill a budget bill by talking it to death (as happened last month), then there is nothing Mr Hastert can do about that either, except to pull the bill from the floor of the House.