The House bill contains an important provision added as a floor amendment at the initiative of Rep. Richard Durbin (D-IL) and approved by an overwhelming majority.
Mike Enzi of Wyoming, a sponsor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, has brought the bill to the Senate floor as an amendment to the budget resolution.
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Lord Owen argues that the bill is now so fiendishly complicated, and so encrusted with amendments, that some sections of it simply cannot be sorted out by a process of adversarial amendment on the floor of the House.
On the Senate floor, supporters beat back an amendment offered by Sen.
The weapons ban, which would update a similar 1994 law that expired a decade later, already has been dropped, though Reid, D-Nevada, has promised a floor vote on it as an amendment to the package.
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Majority Leader Reid blocked the amendment from ever getting to the Senate floor.
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.
Leahy can follow through by introducing the amendment, either in committee or on the Senate floor.
Also, in a new twist that analysts say illustrates the discord among the Republican party, Republican Senator John McCain, the party's 2008 presidential nominee, took to the Senate floor to criticise House Republicans who continue to push for a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution as the price of raising the debt ceiling.
In other floor action, the House debated and rejected, 194-225, an amendment by Republican Rep. Marge Roukema of New Jersey to replace a Transportation Department program that sets a goal of providing 10 percent of transportation projects to businesses owned by women and minorities with another program that would recruit and provide assistance to such businesses.
And it is an amendment that the Lib Dems have chosen to back, an amendment that the Conservative part of the government is now fighting hard to keep from the floor of the House of Lords.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, whose name is on the broader bill, considered an amendment that would scale back the Lincoln proposal but decided instead to push the whole bill to the floor of the Senate for consideration.
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