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.

“Senator Littlebrain's wrecking amendment made the bill nonsensical by deleting the clauses that said what the law would do.”

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Meanings

nounwrecking amendment (plural wrecking amendments)

plural wrecking amendments

  1. governmentAn 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.

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    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
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wrecking amendment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wrecking%20amendment.

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