And yet, on a recent afternoon, Senator Dave Thompson said he had grown doubtful that the "right to work" amendment he hoped to put before voters this fall — a proposition requiring no approval by the governor — would survive a vote of his fellow Republican legislators, or even find its way out of Republican-controlled committees.
The work requirement amendment passed anyway, with overwhelming Republican support.
Piles of Republican legislation from Newt Gingrich's self-styled "revolutionary" House were stacking up in a narrowly divided, more deliberate Senate, and Democrats were threatening to gum up the works with amendments that would stall the bills.
Some prosecutors said yesterday that they were working on amendments to the law that could quickly revive the death penalty.
American and Russian negotiators are trying to work out amendments that would allow both countries to build limited missile defense systems against unpredictable smaller states, like North Korea, Iraq and Iran.
He helped maintain good health conditions in London air raid shelters during the war, has been working for amendments to National Health Service Act, and is Chairman of the Noise Abatement League.
Under the constitutional declaration by Mansour late on Monday, he would create two appointed committees to work out amendments to the Islamist-drafted constitution passed under Morsi.
The administration should not prematurely foreclose that option or the possibility of working out amendments to the ABM treaty with Moscow.
The seventh plenum considered six major issues: political reform, propaganda and mass-mobilization work, constitutional amendments, party building, leadership selection for the 12th National Congress in 2016, and climate-change adaptation, resource management, and environmental protection.
After working through amendments until just before midnight on Monday, weary senators trooped on and off the Senate floor for votes on Democratic amendments until the chamber adjourned this evening.
