I've looked through the record of Senate Resolution 511, and can find no record of a failed amendment. I don't know if Thomas (The Library of Congress' system) records those. This resolution specifically addresses John McCain.
The same senator submitted S 2678, which makes an outright statement, but it's limited to `Any person born to any citizen of the United States while serving in the active or reserve components of the United States Armed Forces'. That's actually pretty broad, when you think about it. But, this bill was left pending in committee.
When everything originally came out, I was on the "Shut up about it already" bandwagon, because I though that the lawsuits made conservatives look like a bunch of kooks. Frankly, I thought that it was a rope-a-dope by Obama. Since the same people talking up Ayers, Resko, Acorn, etc were also touting the BC, I figured that Obama would pull a copy of the BC out about a week before the election and say "Look, here's the Cert. Your charges on it were BS, and everything else is too!" Game over.
The fact that he HASN'T done anything, and in fact would rather pay lawyers rather than produce the document, makes me suspicious. I *still* think that there's nothing particularly nefarious on the BC, there's just something that's personally embarassing to 0. I saw on a previous thread, some speculation that his real father was Cuban. Interesting, I thought. Kind of hard to run as "The First Black President" when you're not black. Doesn't change my mind about him one bit. Doesn't change any questions about his eligibility either (father a Cuban National, rather than a Kenyan national). It DOES, however, make him a whole lot less electable. :-)
Senator Tom Coburn, R-OK was a co-sponsor of this non-binding resolution along with Senator Barack Obama
S 2678 IS
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2678
To clarify the law and ensure that children born to United States citizens while serving overseas in the military are eligible to become President.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 28, 2008
Mrs. MCCASKILL introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF `NATURAL BORN CITIZEN’.
Congress finds and declares that the term `natural born Citizen’ in article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States shall include: `Any person born to any citizen of the United States while serving in the active or reserve components of the United States Armed Forces’.