21.   One amendment would have required new guns to come with trigger mechanisms that would serve as child safety locks.

22.   One amendment would require the federal budget to be balanced, except in certain circumstances, and the other would ban flag burning.

23.   One Republican amendment would require patients to exhaust all possible administrative appeals before suing an HMO.

24.   Presumably the amendment would then require both houses to go through the tormenting process again.

25.   That amendment also requires life imprisonment for a defendant convicted in federal court of a second sex crime against a child.

26.   That amendment would have required insurers to cover the costs of clinical trials for patients with serious illnesses for whom standard treatments are not effective.

27.   That amendment requires the administration to oppose all assistance to any country that detonates a nuclear device, except food, medicine and related aid.

28.   The amendment also requires inspections of any walls that are no longer exempt and have not been previously inspected.

29.   The amendment would also require presidents to disclose pardons as soon as they are granted, to ensure that pardons are not concealed until after the blackout period.

30.   The amendment would require the support of a majority of Texas voters.