Hearings on challenges to other amendments were planned for January.
Other amendments were more nakedly partisan, and outlandish.
Other amendments have attacked judicial independence and religious freedoms.
The Senate today comfortably beat back two other amendments.
Twelve other amendments are expected to be offered in the Senate.
If we violate the First Amendment, will it be so hard to violate other amendments?
We are also actively considering other amendments in the Lords... [but] the key tenets of the bill must be maintained".
The statement said other amendments could weaken the former Soviet republic's commitment to international treaties on human rights and freedoms.
The Rules Committee this morning also approved eight other amendments for debate, including Mr. Ney's rival bill.
The deadline for the text is January, and a vote has been scheduled on other amendments in 2012.
Several other amendments likely this week would weaken the bill's protections for consumers — which could increase risk in the system by allowing predatory or abusive lending.
