wrecking amendment
wrecking amendment noun: an amendment made in bad faith by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and seeks to make it useless rather than simply voting against it.
Noun
wrecking amendment (plural wrecking amendments)
- An amendment made in bad faith by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and seeks to make it useless rather than simply voting against it.
- Senator Littlebrain's wrecking amendment made the bill nonsensical by deleting the clauses that said what the law would do.
- This is such a dumb (and dangerous) idea that it has all the characteristics of a wrecking amendment, added to the Bill just to eat up parliamentary time so that the whole Bill will fall at the dissolution for the upcoming election.2010 March 11, Richard Clayton, “A wrecking amendment ?”, in Light Blue Touchpaper, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023
Forms of wrecking amendment
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Questions about wrecking amendment
- What does wrecking amendment mean?
- Wrecking amendment means an amendment made in bad faith by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and seeks to make it useless rather than simply voting against it.
- What part of speech is wrecking amendment?
- Wrecking amendment is a noun.
- What is the plural of wrecking amendment?
- The plural of wrecking amendment is wrecking amendments.
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