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The amendment approves $25 billion for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq but puts new controls on the money.

The amendment approved by the committee yesterday raised to as much as $1 million the payments for people with lung cancer caused by asbestos.

The amendment, approved by unanimous consent, prohibits the department from setting "any maximum limits on the serving of vegetables in school meal programs".

The amendment approved this week dealt with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, which has become a rallying cry for opponents of regulation.

But under the amendment approved on Wednesday night, any tax cuts -- or spending increases -- in the next five years will require 60 votes for approval in the Senate, unless supporters are able to find spending cuts or other tax increases to make up for the money that would be lost, said Senator Russell D. Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who sponsored the amendment.

Ministers of the 15 national governments of the union are likely to challenge the amendments approved in Parliament today.

Among the amendments approved on Tuesday was a proposal by Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington, to add more peas, lentils and chickpeas to the federal school lunch program.

The European Commission, author of the bill, is also likely to be unhappy with some of the amendments approved by Parliament today.

The amendments, approved on Thursday, say the provision does not apply to eating and drinking establishments and set criteria for defining what officials have called "sham compliance" by book and video stores.

He has argued that the amendments approved this month by parliament were necessary to complete the work of eradicating the legacy of communism from Hungary.

On Wednesday afternoon, White House Domestic Policy Director Cecilia Muñoz said none of the amendments approved by the House make "any sense from a policy perspective," and that they would not be approved by the president.