It would take four years to get the necessary number of states to ratify the amendment.
An amendment reducing the number of guest-worker visas from 325, 000 a year to 200, 000 passed handily, as did another promising 370 miles of fence along the border.
Finance Committee chair Daitihi McKay was critical of the SDLP amendment and that the party had to answer a number of questions about the detail.
The amendment will reduce the number of votes cast by each Kuwaiti from four to one.
As a follow up to the earlier blog written on the Barber Amendment (legislation to reduce the number of inmates by increasing time earned for good behavior), I came across a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder (Thanks to Mark Varca at FedCURE for bringing to my attention) on the impact of the pending government sequester.
In a rare occurrence, the same number of peers voted for and against Lord Condon's amendment - 222 on either side.
Former judge and crossbencher Baroness Butler-Sloss agreed, claiming that, unless the cross-party amendment was accepted, a "large number of victims" would "fall through the net".
But Mr Cash, speaking to the amendment tabled jointly by Labour and a number of Tory backbenchers to remove the need for a two-thirds majority to force an early election, said the rule ran "contrary to all constitutional precedent and history since our parliament first sat".
So Congressman James Wright, then the number two Democrat in the House of Representatives, forced through an amendment that limited interstate air service from Love Field to just four neighboring states.
"Genuine backbenchers will become a threatened species, " he warned, calling on MPs to support an amendment by fellow Conservative Charles Walker to lower the maximum number of MPs filling ministerial roles from 95 to 87.
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Then peers turn to the second report stage day devoted to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, where a number of issues may be forced to a vote - the key one is an amendment to stop the bill removing a duty to promote equal opportunities, with peers on the receiving end of intensive lobbying.
Unfortunately, it would take a constitutional amendment, according to Connaughton, one that would never pass the requisite number of states because those state legislatures can be influenced by lobbyists and campaign contributions to block it.
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Most small and a goodly number of midsize states wouldn't want to see their relative power diluted, so such an amendment would have little chance of ratification.
The vote is on a Lords amendment to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, postponing the boundary changes needed to reduce the number of MPs to 600 and equalise constituency electorates.
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