Legislativechanges are often necessarytotake forwardoursupervisory system, andindeed a bankingamendmentbillisnowalmost a recurrent annualitemin thelegislative programme.
The senators filed a legislativeamendment last week that would stop contracts, loans and other funds from going to the Institute of Microelectronics until the FBI gets "full access" to the probe's findings.
Ordinarily, debate and voting on an amendment might take two legislative days, but under the rules of the reconciliation bill the senators were to dispatch the amendments one after another, as in a hot-dog-eating contest, with a minute of debate for each side.
The third criticism of the "anti-sharia" legislative movement reflected in Oklahoma's constitutional amendment is a kind of "don't-throw-out-the-baby-with-the-bath-water" argument.