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Leading Republican conservatives have attached amendments banning interrogation using torture to the Pentagon's appropriations measure for the coming year.

The bill, strongly supported by the National Rifle Association, passed the House of Representatives but was narrowly defeated in the Senate in March after gun-control advocates attached amendments to it, including one that would have extended the ban on assault weapons that expires this year.

The real strength of the convention has therefore yet to be shown.Other problems loom: barely noticed in the recent furore over the Indian and Pakistani nuclear testing, the American Senate last month attached amendments to enabling legislation that, if allowed to stand, would give the president the right to refuse challenge inspections.

The attached amendment, written by the association's lobbying firm, is what Senator Oelslager added to the budget bill.

"This is exactly what we want to pre-empt with the attached amendment," Mr. Mason wrote, according to papers filed with the court.

Some Democrats were also considering trying to attach amendments to the bill, like one raising the minimum wage.

A novel strategy Long devised for pushing his agenda through the state legislature involved attaching amendments to pending measures on unrelated subjects.

"We'll do what we have to do," said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the second-ranking Democrat, referring to attaching amendments to the military authorization bill.

Democrats in both chambers said they were considering attaching amendments rescinding various Bush-era rules to the coming stimulus package, which is considered "must-pass" legislation.

Knowing that the measure is likely to become law, lobbyists and members of Congress have tried to attach amendments dealing with narrower concerns, like dietary supplements and genetically engineered salmon.

Even before revelations this summer by Edward J. Snowden on the extent of spying by the National Security Agency on electronic communications, the European Parliament busied itself attaching amendments to its data privacy regulation.