11.   A group of House Democrats and Republicans who want to eliminate the commodity subsidies altogether are demanding the right to offer amendments.

12.   A more subtle means of sabotage may be to offer amendments to the compromise bill that are onerous enough to Democrats to sink the bill.

13.   African bishops and their allies immediately set out to make the resolution even more conservative by offering several amendments.

14.   Addressing that concern, Democrats offered an amendment, based on a White House initiative, to provide tax credits to workers of modest income.

15.   Aides to Kennedy said the senator may offer several amendments next week, including one to scale back the estate tax proposal and increase education funding.

16.   Aides said they knew of no members at this point who intend to offer amendments.

17.   Also, this procedure would not allow amendments to be offered on the floor.

18.   Burns said Weldon is not sure whether he will offer an amendment to the spending bill, but he plans to speak on the floor during the debate.

19.   But a group of six Democrats, four of whom represent rural Southern districts, also will offer an amendment to weaken the House gun show language even further.

20.   But Democrats could not agree on which amendments to offer, Torricelli said.