Sentences with phrase «amendment from»

Statement by Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, on Exclusion of Burris Amendment from the Defense Authorization Bill

The House is expected to vote Thursday to completely eliminate funding for the National Family Planning Program (Title X), as well as pass an amendment from Rep. Mike Pence (R - Ind.)

They were approved on June 23rd without any amendment from the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.

«For present purposes, we may and do assume that freedom of speech and of the press — which are protected by the First Amendment from abridgment by Congress — are among the fundamental personal rights and «liberties» protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the States.»

The government is prohibited by the first amendment from creating a law which gives preference to one religion over another.

You could help update the page on the proposed school prayer amendment or update Wikipedia's entry on duels to reflect the proposed amendment from 1838 that would have barred duel participants from holding any federal office.

Such bills might benefit from that procedure, because there would be more room for creative amendment from all parties than there is after second reading.

There is no line in the Constitution that reads, «ATTN: ANTONIN SCALIA JUST SO YOU KNOW WOMEN ARE AFFORDED THE SAME CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS AS EVERYONE ELSE FYI» and «This is not, of course, a surprising take on the Fourteenth Amendment from Scalia, but it's always nice to see him talk about what an asshole he is.»

Republicans backed Inhofe's stance in a second vote, rejecting an amendment from Sen. Brian Schatz (D - Hawaii) that stated, «climate change is real and human activity significantly contributes to climate change.»

Less Government is an «organization dedicated to reducing the power of government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault,» which was founded and run by Seton Motley, who is also listed as a policy adviser to the climate science - denying Heartland Institute.

One procedural amendment from Colorado representative Jared Polis proposed changing the title of the bill from the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 to the Deny Americans the Right to Know act.

An amendment from Senator Orrin Hatch (R - UT) passed unanimously, creating a commission that would study privacy issues and then offer policy recommendations to Congress.

Importantly, as a learning disabilities amendment from Senator Bill Cassidy (R - La.)

Also passed were an amendment from Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

While HuffPost has so far seen no amendments to bring the teacher evaluation component back, an amendment from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I - Vt.)

Amy Harder of The Wall Street Journal reports that «Republicans are responding with an amendment from Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota» that quotes from a section of the State Department which states that «the proposed pipeline would produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than an alternative mode of transportation, such as rail.

An additional $ 10 million was added for energy storage demonstration projects, via an amendment from Reps. Carlos Curbelo (R - FL) and Mike Gallagher (R - WI).

The Wall Street reform bill passed by the House includes an amendment from U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy, D - Glens Falls.

They voted no on an amendment from Scott Brown that would have devastated... the city's business and tax base.

The five year Farm Bill, likely to pass a vote in the U.S. Senate next Monday, includes an amendment from New York Sen. Charles Schumer that attempts to address rising demand for milk.

Thanks to an amendment from Rep. Chris Collins, R - Clarence, that includes $ 2.3 billion annually that upstate and Long Island counties now pay as their share for the Medicaid program.

Hochul says that loss would be compounded by an amendment from New York Rep. Chris Collins that would end federal reimbursements for the share of Medicaid costs that New York counties currently pay, effectively leaving the state with a $ 2.3 billion tab.

An amendment from Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D - N.Y.) would have maintained direct funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through the Federal Reserve, while the CHOICE Act gives Congress control of the CFPB's budget.

With Sens. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsDem rep to launch discharge petition to force net neutrality vote in House Hillicon Valley: Senate votes to save net neutrality Senate panel breaks with House, says Russia favored Trump in 2016 Latest from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Lawmakers push back on helping Chinese tech giant Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — ObamaCare premium wars are back MORE (R - Maine) and Jack ReedJohn (Jack) Francis ReedOvernight Defense: Trump aide's comment mocking McCain sparks outrage Haspel gets another «no» vote Pompeo floats North Korea aid for denuclearization Politicians, media explode over White House aide's comments Senate Dems urge Trump to remain in Iran deal ahead of announcement MORE (D - R.I.), who are spearheading the legislation, opposed to Paul's amendment, Paul pledged that he would block leadership from trying to speed up procedural votes, as well as block any other amendment from getting queued up for floor time.

In The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman recounts the raucous public debate that has surrounded the amendment from its inception to the present.

A new amendment from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D - NY) which would that would ban federal contractors who discriminate against LGBT people attached to an energy and water spending bill passed the House late on Wednesday following days of fury from Dem... Read

At the end of proceedings on the European Union Bill yesterday, there was an opportunity for the Commons to debate and vote on the amendment from Wellingborough MP Peter Bone, which he wrote about here on ConHome last month.

The first spot touts the endorsements of the amendment from newspaper editorial boards both upstate and downstate (New York's largest and most prominent newspaper, The New York Times, urged a «no» vote in an editorial last month).

Maloney also has introduced a companion bill to an amendment from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

He noted that «this Court has never held that religious institutions are disabled by the First Amendment from participating in publicly sponsored social welfare programs.»

As Rick Warren said, «Today, the government has tried to reinterpret the First Amendment from freedom to PRACTICE your religion, to a more narrow freedom to worship, which would limit your freedom to the hour a week you are at a house of worship.»

According to one of the ministers who backed the gay rights amendment from the beginning: «The real, crucial question in all this is: Can the church's ministry be directed to gays without demanding that they become heterosexual?»

This is just an attempt to subvert the First Amendment from start to finish.

An amendment from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was roundly criticized by insurance companies over the weekend, who warned that it would create an unsustainable market.

The BCRA's newest iteration also contains a controversial amendment from Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that some health policy experts and major insurance companies have warned could catalyze a race - to - the - bottom.

After an official 20 hours of debate, the Republican - controlled Senate was expected to begin a potentially chaotic «vote - a-rama» on amendments from Republicans and Democrats before moving to a final vote late on Thursday or early on Friday.

The group is arguing that it's this voluntary nature that should have protected the amendments from delay.

Going through the more formal, restricted process of proposing a specific Amendment that must be introduced in Congress, be passed by 2/3 majorities in both houses, and then be ratified by the required number of states (3/4, which would still have to approve amendments from a convention, as well) seems doomed to fail in this current period of hyper - partisanship and gridlock, but the alternative of calling a Constitutional Convention is so broad that it can easily have unexpected results, in the opposite direction that those originally organizing had hoped for.

So the government maintains the holding position that it is considering the amendments from peers - and in fairness it would not normally bring them back to the Commons within days of the Lords third reading - but the consideration could go on for quite a while.

The leadership later won the vote, with amendments from the left - leaning Social Liberal Forum rejected.

Griffo also answered questions about his use of humor during floor proceedings, hostile amendments from the Democrats, appearances in the chamber by Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi and the 2009 Senate Coup.

Melinda Katz: I would not let amendments from the floor.

So far, Republicans haven't accepted any amendments from Democrats, including one proposed by a local lawmaker that would help many New Yorkers pay their rent.

It is not yet known whether any of the amendments from the Lords will be accepted by the government.

«They took a bill that came in from an out - of - state organization on gun control and they rammed it through without any debate, without any discussion, without any amendments from law enforcement.»

The procedural gambit gets complicated though, because committee rules prevent amendments from being considered without minority participation.

Illinois, another state that won funding in the same round as New Jersey, has sought and won five amendments from the federal government.

Pavlov said he's considering suggested amendments from the House, but generally supports the measures.

Yes, I stand by what I have said, with obviously amendments from having made efforts to grow and learn in the time since I posted those statements.

No deeper analyses, no retractions or amendments from grown understanding, no tangents into new problems, no bringing back of things he learned from this work to other (non climate) fields.