Ms. Collins pushed legislation last year that would impose a 13-point test for rule-making and empower the White House to second-guess new regulations, a far harsher version of the amendments facing a vote on Friday.
A constitutional amendment facing Florida voters in January would expand tax caps for many residences statewide.
In the Senate, Mr. Udall's amendment faces significant hurdles with Republicans, largely because it prohibits Congress from providing income tax breaks for people earning more than $1 million a year, except during years of budget surpluses.
A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio, would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder.
The amendment faces a long, unlikely path even to win initial congressional approval.
The 13th Amendment faced many challenges, but the poignant moment of its congressional passage was only the beginning of a long process to eradicate slavery in the United States - an effort that continues today in the modern anti-slavery movement.
As for the amendment, major media – like the Huffington Post – are taking Feinstein's amendment at face value as a measure of preventing Americans from being indefinitely detained by the military.
That amendment would face long odds in the Senate, if House Republicans were able to advance the bill.
It was a wonderful breakthrough to have a black president, but anomalous that we haven't yet had a female president; still have so few women leaders in politics, academics, and business; couldn't pass the equal rights amendment; and face spurious challenges to Planned Parenthood which has done so much to further women's health and reproductive rights.
Yet Reverend DuBois made little headway in clarifying the First Amendment issues facing the office, which has been controversial since President George W. Bush created it in 2001.
