substantive amendments

Only two substantive amendments were passed in the long floor debate.

The substantive amendments are not really the issue today.

We must not, however, forget to consider the substantive amendments that are so urgently needed.

I must admit that the first draft you presented made it quite difficult for us to introduce substantive amendments.

However, the Council has simply ignored the substantive amendments that were put forward by the House at first reading.

"The Administration is not taking an official position in favor of any one of the competing substantive amendments," the letter said.

These are technical rather than substantive amendments.

But Republicans showed some flexibility by not forcing a vote on whether to bring the bill up, so for now fights over substantive amendments can be joined.

The Council rejected all substantive amendments proposed by Parliament at first reading, as it believes that these would not be compatible with the intended simplification.

Although the Council took on board a number of Parliament's amendments, substantive amendments were finally omitted from the Council's common position.

There are, secondly, substantive amendments that make perfect sense and will form part of the final version of the directive that will be adopted.

The technical amendments were largely accepted by the Council, but it rejected all substantive amendments proposed by Parliament.

I support two substantive amendments, as I believe that text that is excessively detailed and excessively well meaning often confuses rather than enlightens.

When the President executed on this requirement, however, he selected sections comprising an arbitrary assortment of both administrative and substantive amendments contained in the amending Act.

Serving from 1991 to 2003, Maxey passed hundreds of bills and substantive amendments and played a leading role in passing the Children's Health Insurance Program.

The second would be to focus substantive amendments on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to specifically address new abuses that spring from the misuse of new technologies.

We did not feel it was necessary to table any substantive amendments to the framework directive because we felt that it covered the strategy that Parliament had laid down.

Parliament also adopted a number of substantive amendments, including rules on origin marking, the indication of animal-derived materials, the use of language-independent symbols and a review clause.

Thirdly, there are substantive amendments that present the Commission with no difficulties but will not get past the Council because they go against the fundamental interests of one or more Member States.

I am confident that as the prime minister of a country that rejected the old constitutional treaty, you will be more pragmatic on matters of substantive amendments to the new draft treaty.

Finally, I am seeking to take out the addition of split and separate votes to the procedure that will permit the President to refer back to a committee a report which has attracted more than 50 substantive amendments.

Due to the difficulty in amending the Charter, it is unlikely that any of these spent provisions will be amended except as part of a package making substantive amendments, such as Security Council reform.

To quote directly from there: ‘the Council's common position of May 2004 did not retain any of the substantive amendments introduced by the EP’. Parliament was therefore bypassed with a shrug of the shoulders.

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 did not approve any substantive amendments to the HBA but created the Highway Beautification Commission and, for the first time, authorized substantial funding for the program:

The European Council endorsed this position at its March meeting by asking those involved in the legislative procedure to make the substantive amendments that were needed to ensure that the draft fully meets the requirements of the European social model.