abstract:In parliamentary procedure, a friendly amendment is an amendment to a motion under debate that is perceived by all parties as an enhancement to the original motion, often only as clarification of intent.
Reverend DEBORAH JOHNSON (Senior Pastor and Founder, Inner Light Ministries): It is extremely hard, and I'd like to do a friendlyamendment to what we just heard about that the African-American community knew exactly what it was doing.
And it has the advantage of being more First Amendment-friendly by eschewing a priori blanket mandates tied explicitly to the treatment of Internet content.