wrecking amendment
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
wrecking amendment (plural wrecking amendments)
- (politics) 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.
- 2010 March 11, Richard Clayton, “A wrecking amendment ?”, in Light Blue Touchpaper[1], archived from the original on 4 February 2023:
- 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.