The governor's office, in working with the Iowa Newspaper Association, inserted the amendment, hoping it would be enough of an olive branch to finally pass the bill after six years of opposition from local governments and organizations like the Iowa League of Cities.
The amendment will insert a new paragraph 10B and will take the form of the enclosed document.
After just a few minutes of late-night discussion among a small handful of lawmakers, King managed to insert an amendment in the House of Representatives' version of the pending Farm Bill that could nullify vast numbers of state laws protecting animals from cruelty.
He sought unsuccessfully to insert the word "expressly" into the Tenth Amendment, which might have more significantly limited the federal government's power.
The amendment, which was advocated by recording companies, was inserted without debate into an unrelated bill in Congress last November.
The amendment rejected by the Senate on Sunday, proposed by Senator Jim Risch, Republican of Idaho, would have inserted language into the preamble about the importance of tactical weapons.
To solve this problem, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota inserted an amendment in the Senate bill that would end the practice of banks picking the agency to rate their securities; rather, an agency would be chosen at random, and the bank would be forced to accept its rating.
When civil liberties advocates attempted to insert an amendment that would create an exemption for people using religion as a reason to violate anti-discrimination laws, Canady and fellow Republicans rallied to defeat it.
