Introduced in Congress by bipartisan co-sponsors earlier this year, the Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA) is a workable, commonsense solution that would modernize the elections process and protect the voting rights of all Americans.
We then undertook a final amendment phase to make them workable.
"We must conclude that for parts of this bill, amendments will not be sufficient to make good, workable, effective legislation.
"We must conclude that for parts of this bill, amendments will not be sufficient to make good, workable, effective legislation," he said.
"However, time is pressing and amendments to the new rules that jockeys believe are workable need to be adopted very soon.
The Lib Dem peer Baroness Williams, one of the leading opponents of the bill, said it was too early to say whether the legislation would be workable or not, because no one had yet seen the nearly 200 amendments the government is expected to put forward.
I hope that other groups, even those for whom it is not their preferred amendment, will nonetheless rally behind this as an acceptable compromise and a workable one, which our Union would be wise to take on in its new Constitution.
"We will consider any amendments they want to propose for the Alcohol Bill that provide a realistic, workable and effective pricing intervention that can be put in place now.
Is "liquid democracy" workable?
