Sentences with phrase «as a hostile amendment»

The tax returns bill has been derided by Senate Republicans as a «P.R. stunt» but Stewart - Cousins insisted the measure was part of a consistent set of policy proposals (a different, but similar bill that would link releasing tax returns to ballot access, was defeated as a hostile amendment on the Senate floor).

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

The Democrats are (not so) secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

Democrats in the New York state Senate say they will push harder for gun control bills in the wake of the Florida shooting that left 17 dead and are even considering proposing the measures as hostile amendments.

Democrats in the state Senate, fed up with gun - control bills going nowhere in the GOP - controlled chamber, are secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

In response, my conference brought the APPLE Plan as a hostile amendment to the bill, suggesting it be added to their non-comprehensive and limited bill.

Senate Democrats made a last - ditch effort to get legislation to make it easier for survivors of sexual abuse to seek justice as adults into the budget by trying to attach it as a hostile amendment to one of the bills.

Senate Democrats have sought to attach gun control legislation, much of it identical to what is backed by Assembly Democrats, as hostile amendments and were voted down.

That reasoning did not stop Senate Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, from attempting to place the bill on the Senate floor for a vote, in what's known as a hostile amendment.

Not exact matches

Gary Greenberg, an upstate investor who was sexually abused as a boy in 1966, said he would have preferred the Republicans allow a straight up - or - down vote on Hoylman's bill rather than force the Dems to go the hostile amendment route.

«Those who try to paint Alito as hostile to women's interests for this are either distorting his record or misunderstanding the law,» blogs UW professor Ann Althouse, who on Monday blogged this rave review of Alito's opinion on whether Congress has the power under the 14th Amendment to enact the Family Medical Leave Act (Chittister v. Department of community and Economic Development).