On laissait donc entendre que, aux termes de la Constitution, le Sénat ne pouvait proposer d'amendements portant affectation de crédits ni d'amendements portant affectation de crédits virtuelle, car les affectations virtuelles constituent une forme d'affectation de crédits.
The obvious implication of that argument is that, under the Constitution, the Senate could not make amendments which were appropriations or that entailed virtual appropriations because virtual appropriation is a form of appropriation.