Sentences with phrase «of an amendment to the bill in»

The House had already passed similar legislation, but because of amendments to the bill in the Senate, a re-vote will be required before this puppy can get to the President's desk.

Not exact matches

Although a March 23 analysis of amendments added to the bill lowered predicted savings to $ 150 billion, the big savings would come in future decades.

«The amendment to the underlying Iran sanctions bill maintains and substantially expands sanctions against the government of Russia in response to the violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukraine and Crimea, its brazen cyberattacks and interference in elections, and its continuing aggression in Syria,» said Republicans and Democrats on the committees.

Take a look at the specific language of the government's amendments in the last federal budget to the Investment Canada Act (Bill C - 60).

And fiscal conservatives have every reason to wince over the bill's allotment of $ 46 billion to fortify the Mexican border, a late amendment thrown in to win Republican Senators» support.

But now that the procedural hurdle has been passed, the broader health bills that will (reportedly) be considered in the coming days, in the form of «amendments» that would supplant the basic legislative vehicle the Senate used to begin official debate Tuesday, face an uncertain future.

«Amendments to the bill face an uphill battle, says John Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia University Law School who testified in favor of bananas yesterday, «but they sometimes win.»

Tom Angell, of the pro-marijuana legalization group Marijuana Majority, said in an email that «while most of our federal gains to date have been through amendments attached to much broader spending bills, I'm hopeful that with the growing number of states changing their laws these stand - alone bills [like Garrett's] will get enough traction to at least finally start getting hearings.»

Introduced by Finance Minister Joe Ceci, Bill 10: Fiscal Statutes Amendment Act removed the 15 per cent debt - to - nominal - GDP cap implemented by the NDP in the fall session of 2015.

By: Henry Lazenby 30th April 2018 Canadian miners are voicing frustration and concern over the federal government's removal of a Senate amendment relating to final offer arbitration (FOA), and with its modification of an amendment giving the Canada Transportation Agency own - motion power, in Bill C - 49 — legislation that amends the... →

Bill 7: Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act introduced by Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley pushed forward the timelines to redraw the electoral boundaries before the provincial election in 2019, which could have an impact on the results of that election.

Reconciliation bills are privileged in a number of ways, including with a 20 - hour limit on debate in the Senate, a non-debatable motion to proceed to the bill, and a strict germaneness test for amendments.

In response to the rule change, Rep. Bill Dunn confronted the decision in an amendment he proposed to the Tennessee House of Representatives Education CommitteIn response to the rule change, Rep. Bill Dunn confronted the decision in an amendment he proposed to the Tennessee House of Representatives Education Committein an amendment he proposed to the Tennessee House of Representatives Education Committee.

Opponents of government introduced an amendment reversing that disparity, and the final version of the Bill contained a compromise in which the pressure to guarantee new seats to the industrial constituencies was more evident than hostility to the rotten boroughs.

He would go on to become the chief architect of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights which would, in turn, become several of the Constitutional Amendments.

«That is why I will support several amendments to the bill which will provide that additional reassurance in respect of their fundamental rights and freedoms.»

The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.

Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage: 1791 with the Bill of Rights, 1868 with the 14th Amendment, or some other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex marriage requirements?

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

But celebration is very much in order, beginning with a word of gratitude to the authors of the Bill of Rights for the First Amendment, which begins with a concern for religious freedom.

In reality, the founders put the second amendment in the bill of rights not to ensure Americans could enjoy hunting or target practice, but as a protection against government tyrannIn reality, the founders put the second amendment in the bill of rights not to ensure Americans could enjoy hunting or target practice, but as a protection against government tyrannin the bill of rights not to ensure Americans could enjoy hunting or target practice, but as a protection against government tyranny.

Members of Congress attached the amendment to health care spending bills, starting in 1976 when Rep. Henry Hyde, the late Illinois Republican, first introduced the ban.

George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

That faulty diagnosis [that Evangelical progressives are a Fifth Column of sorts in the Democratic Party] seems to be shared in recent speculation that the Stupak amendment — which went beyond the abortion neutrality called for by all the Christian progressives I'm aware of — was added to the House health - care bill as part of a long - standing plan by progressive religious forces.

First came Lord Joffe's two attempts to pass an assisted suicide Bill in the early - to - mid Noughties, then an attempted amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill by former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton in 2009.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

Nevertheless, for all his artful linguistic deconstruction, Amar has no effective answer for the most obvious question of all: If in fact the framers of the Amendment intended to apply the Bill of Rights against the states, why didn't any of them say so?

Health Minister Simon Harris was given permission to draft a bill to be put before the Dail in the event of the Eighth Amendment being repealed.

2nd amendment is to protect us from GOVERNMENT and protect the rest of amendments in the Bill of Rights!

The Senate referred the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2014 (introduced by Independent Senator Nick Xenophon), to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report in the first half of 2014.

Debate on the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2016 is set to resume in the House of Representatives today, with Treasurer Scott Morrison set to move the amendment to the bill proposed by the Senate Economics CAmendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2016 is set to resume in the House of Representatives today, with Treasurer Scott Morrison set to move the amendment to the bill proposed by the Senate Economics CommitBill 2016 is set to resume in the House of Representatives today, with Treasurer Scott Morrison set to move the amendment to the bill proposed by the Senate Economics Camendment to the bill proposed by the Senate Economics Commitbill proposed by the Senate Economics Committee.

[Note: fortunately even the Senate Economics Committee had the good sense to reject that proposal, which found it's way in the Trade Practices Amendment (Material Lessening of Competition - Richmond Amendment) Bill 2009]

That same year, Rep. DeLauro was able to get an amendment (co-sponsored by Rep. Chellie Pingree (D - ME)-RRB- into the 2015 omnibus spending bill keeping chicken processed in China out of school meals, and she's made sure this amendment has appeared in every spending bill since.

Noting the connection between childhood hunger and obesity and impaired military recruitment, the US House of Representatives voted in favor of an amendment to a military spending bill expressing support for adequate funding for the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.

Last week, whilst teaching a course at Colorado College, I wrote a piece for The Economist about a bill to allow civil unions in the state, which was combined with reporting on Obama's announcement in support of gay marriage and that passage of North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

UPDATE: The property tax cap (Sens. Brian Foley, Jeff Klein, Dave Valesky (added) and Craig Johnson — although the chapter amendment to mandate restored education aid be used for property tax relief might ameliorate their concerns), the SUNY tuition plan (Sen. Bill Stachowski and Antoine Thompson (added)-RRB-, the same - sex marriage language (Diaz Sr.) and the counting of prisoners in the Census and home health care differentials.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

As the above diagrams show, bills can start in either the lower or upper houses (commons or lords) and are then passed to the other house before final consideration of amendments followed by royal assent.

«A number of amendments to the previous bill were known to be required to make the legislation work effectively and fairly, especially in relation to the interest deductibility rules, and it is hoped that these will be included in the bill published in September.

LORDS Monday Questions - UK Equity Markets and Long - Term Decision Making, Incorporating social tourism policies in future tourism strategies, Enabling Eurostar to resume regular services between Brussels and Lille, Marking Workers» Memorial Day Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Consideration of Commons amendments

According to the report, Senate suspended the consideration of the bill which sought to amend Section 308 (2) of the 1999 Constitution to allow for the prosecution of the affected leaders on matters relating to economic and financial crimes even when in office, because it was introduced to the Senate after the constitution review committee had submitted a report on the key amendments to be effected in the life of the Eighth National Assembly.

MPs are due to debate the second reading of the EU amendment bill, in which Mr Davidson planned to insert an amendment calling for the bill to be thrown out on the grounds of lack of public consent.

The potential for what Joel Barkan once called «reform coalitions» to protect democratic gains is well illustrated by another piece of legislation recently introduced in Kenya: the «statute law (miscellaneous amendments) bill», 2013.

The so - called Faso - Collins amendment, a provision that would require New York state to pick up the county share of Medicaid costs, has been included in the Senate Republican bill.

In an unusual step, MPs on the Commons» intelligence and security committee offered their own report reinforcing the findings of the main report out today, by parliament's joint committee, calling for significant amendments to the draft communications data bill.

That includes Rep. Chris Collins, a western New York Republican, who is one of the two authors of the amendment that shift the Medicaid burden from county governments to the state, which was included in the Senate version of the bill.

In 1926, using the high esteem in which she was held to good effect, Ellen persuaded the reluctant Minister of Pensions to accept important amendments to his BilIn 1926, using the high esteem in which she was held to good effect, Ellen persuaded the reluctant Minister of Pensions to accept important amendments to his Bilin which she was held to good effect, Ellen persuaded the reluctant Minister of Pensions to accept important amendments to his Bill.

The Faso - Collins amendment, a provision that would require New York state to pick up the counties» share of Medicaid costs, has been included in the Senate bill.

There are three ballot propositions going before voters statewide in November: A proposed constitutional amendment to establish a redistricting commission (with members to be appointed by legislative leaders), a constitutional amendment to permit electronic distribution to state legislators of pending bills, and a $ 2 billion school bond issue.

Instead, on 2 December 1987 in committee, Conservative MP David Wilshire proposed an amendment to the new Local Government Bill, as not yet passed, debated as Clause 27 and later as Clause 28, intended to be equivalent to the Earl of Halsbury's Bill.