The action on the amendments represents "a significant step back in the fight against corruption and breaches commitments Romania has taken upon accession," the report said.
Yesterday's legislative assault on the bill was at least temporarily effective: The committee put off action on 15 amendments, including two by Republicans, after Democrats insisted on recorded votes.
Mr. Conrad and others have indicated they will not endorse an increase without action on an amendment to create a deficit-reduction panel.
Four days later, however, the authority reversed its position after the local group that had bought the ads threatened legal action on First Amendment grounds.
Action on the amendment, which has been held up since March 14 by a Southern-led oratorical attack, sets the stage for the Senate to return to the highly controversial item that is its pending business: President Kennedy's proposal that the United States buy $100 million in United Nations bonds.
No action on the amendment has been completed by: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, or Virginia.
Similarly, Representative James T. Walsh, a Republican from the Syracuse area, "wants to ensure that all other legislative means are exhausted" before Congress takes action on a constitutional amendment, according to his spokesman.
But we will compromise.' So I think what we are going to see this year, because of the consequences of inaction, is an unusual situation where there will be action on both an amendment to the sequester and to the taxes".
Today's action in the Senate and the similar action last week in the House came on amendments to a bill to finance the operations of the Department of Agriculture.
The Senate vote is expected on Wednesday, although several senators today offered an amendment, action on which was delayed, that would extend a dairy compact authorizing a system of milk price controls in New England.
