PD to field 'kangaroo' in civil-unions

(ANSA) - Rome, February 15 - The ruling Democratic Party (PD) is to use a so-called 'kangaroo' amendment, quashing all similar amendments, in debate over a civil-unions bill that resumes in the Senate Tuesday, PD Senate Whip Luigi Zanda said Monday.
    "It's on the agenda and I don't see how we couldn't vote on it," he said. The kangaroo aims to get round a slew of amendments to the bill, whose stepchild adoption provision is being stiffly resisted by conservative Catholics.