With their majority in the House, they can usually block consideration of Democratic amendments.

The Democratic amendment would have added $6 billion to the $5 billion in current money for child care.

The Democratic amendment would almost certainly raise the tax rate on wealthiest Americans at least to 33 percent.

This means that if three Republicans vote for the Democratic amendment, the panel will pass it.

Republicans on the panel rejected a series of Democratic amendments.

But he has sporadically backed Democratic amendments to change the bill.

They did the same thing when they killed a Democratic amendment on emergency room care.

But several Democratic amendments to the bill failed today.

Then it voted, 58 to 40, to kill a Democratic amendment to make the tax increase $1.50 over three years.

The committee approved the plan 23-19 after rejecting a series of Democratic amendments.