The biggest danger now lies in watered-down bills dressed up to look like reform.

Professor Reichman argued that even the watered-down bill voted today was "an important step forward."

After the compromise was reached, news organizations decried it as a watered-down bill that they would accept but grudgingly.

Bush would sign a watered-down bill, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, after Hawkins' retirement.

We have to compete with lots of advertising dollars from the drug companies that want a watered-down bill.

The gun lobby denies that the dismissals and passage of the watered-down bill were connected.

And we did get a watered-down assisted-suicide bill through.

When the final measure passed, she says, it was a much weakened and watered-down bill that did little damage to the 1968 gun law.

It is likely that a watered-down bill will let companies put off dealing with the problem in hopes something will turn up.

While Clinton ended up signing a watered-down bill, he had skirted a tough issue that could have hurt him politically.