Without a motion those who want changes - a referendum, the removal of the bishops, or whatever - will see their ideas debated as long as they've managed to produce an amendment that is in order.

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Instead, Feinstein could propose the ban as an amendment to the gun legislation on the Senate floor in order to get a vote on it, Reid said.

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Moscow introduced an amendment to its Information Act in November allowing sites to be taken offline in order to protect children.

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Given what we know of the materials as they have come out to this point, there is little likelihood that an official order to remove the materials would have succeeded in surmounting the high barriers erected by first amendment doctrine in cases of prior restraint.

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