Democratic leaders are trying to prevent some of these dangerous amendments from ever reaching the floor, and many will have trouble getting the necessary 60 votes.
But despite the joviality, and despite the fact that nearly every committee member seemed to agree with Mr. Durbin's statement that "gang activity is deadly and dangerous," the amendment failed.
The dangerous proposed amendment to the country's penal code, discussions on which begin in Congress on Thursday, would also increase sanctions and jail times for healthcare providers and others accused of "promoting" abortion services.
"The dangerous King Amendment could have nullified hundreds of state laws on animal welfare, food safety, and other important issues," said Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund.
On Thursday, the bill passed its last major test, a dangerous "non-severability" amendment that could have led to the demise of the entire measure if one key part of it was found unconstitutional.
Far from safeguarding the vulnerable, it can expose them to undue pressure, if not worse, by dangerous offenders … My amendment... is mandatory.
The Senate's version of urgently needed legislation to protect credit card users has been saddled with a dangerous and utterly nongermane amendment allowing visitors to openly carry loaded firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges.
The King Amendment is dangerous on many fronts and needs to be stricken from the Farm Bill.
At the same time Greenfield claims that the People's Rights Amendment is "dangerous" and that by eliminating corporate constitutional rights, it would somehow undermine the constitutional rights of real persons acting in groups or in the setting of a non-profit or commercial corporation.
