(The bill also removes the $75m cap on oil firms' liability for damage from offshore spills, in response to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico).Mr Obama has said he will fight on for a weightier bill.
The bill also tackles other weighty issues, including linking teacher tenure to performance rather than seniority, making it easier to remove ineffective teachers and making it harder for the union to strike.
The Conservative backbencher Dan Byles (fifth in the annual ballot) is going to have a pop at getting the bill through, but this might be rather too weighty an issue for the private members' bill system.
Mr. Bennett denied that the move was in retaliation, saying that he simply wanted to take a greater role in the panel's discussions on weighty issues like the anti-terrorism package and racial profiling bills.
In an e-mail message describing their work, Mr. Katz noted that the bill, as its opponents have repeatedly pointed out, is a weighty 1,990 pages.
Some will argue that these bills, at around 1,500 pages each, have to be weighty and complex if they are to curb the ill effects of convoluted and inscrutable financial instruments.
Critics also asked why the amendments were introduced into parliament in a private member's bill, rather than as government business, as would be normal for weighty matters of state.For now, at least, the EU's mutterings seem of little concern to Mr Orban.
Among other things, they say, the bills could make sites responsible for all content or links posted by their users, a weighty burden for social sites.
The Legislature contends that weighty matters, like policy on education aid, should not have been added to the governor's appropriations bills, said Stewart F. Hancock Jr., who is outside counsel to the Senate and a former Court of Appeals judge.
Godsmack, sharing the bill, is more straightforward, latching on to the sound of Black Sabbath and latter-day Metallica with weighty, slow-riffing songs about sickness and fear.
