Since the commission needs four votes to forward an amendment to Congress, a single member can now block any action.

But members of Parliament have repeatedly blocked the legislation, arguing that it is too soft on murderers.

But eliminating it looks impossible because any permanent member can block the proposal - by vetoing it.

Today in the Senate, individual members can block consideration of virtually anything and can do so anonymously for three days.

The state legislature had a Democratic supermajority and she wanted to have enough members to block them from overriding her vetoes.

Under Senate procedures, any member can privately block a bill by placing a "hold" on it.

Each year since then, members of Congress have blocked their own raises through an amendment on the spending bill for the Treasury Department.

Local reports said members of the 1,000-member clan had blocked the family's street with vehicles.

Other members would block doorways and telephones so no one of authority could be notified to what was going on.

Any member of the committee could then block the funds.