Another was an amendment offered last summer by Senator John McCain for a $5.4 billion, three-year pilot program offering one million children $2,000 vouchers.
Many Democrats, even moderates, have raised skepticism about any balanced budget amendment offered by a Republican.
"The amendment offered by the senator from Oklahoma makes a mockery of this Senate," Baucus declared.
The Democrats anticipated every argument, and virtually every amendment, offered by Republican opponents of the bill.
The first amendment offered was a proposal to eliminate more than $18 million from the Pentagon budget.
An amendment offered by Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, would bar any financing of Planned Parenthood.
Nearly all of the discussion about whether to vote to cut off the use of military force focused on the amendment offered by Mr. Kucinich and Mr. Amash.
The amendment, offered by Rep. Kay Granger, a Texas Republican, refers to Taiwan as "our key strategic ally in the Pacific".
Another amendment offered by Mr. Lugar, which failed, would have further restricted the United States' role in Libya, essentially ending airstrikes and the use of drones.
An amendment offered by Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, requires individuals or firms that collect intelligence from political insiders to register as lobbyists do.
He had even voted for an amendment, offered by his Republican colleague Jeff Sessions, of Alabama, that would have scrapped Corker's work of many months with Warner.
