Talk:Wrecking amendment

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This article should definitely discuss the US Civil Rights Act. A Congressman threw in a clause applying all the Act's protections to women thinking it would kill the bill, but it passed anyway. A good example of a wrecking amendment that backfired for the guy who proposed it.

[edit] Gender Recognition Act

I don't understand why the amendment to the GRA described in the article (forbidding transsexual marriages) would qualify as a wrecking amendment. To me it seems it's just making the bill weaker, not wrecking it for everyone. OTOH there might be something about the act that I don't understand and that is not explained in the article, since this is the first time I heard about the act. --SLi 09:05, 22 July 2007 (UTC)