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[-] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago

It may be that is the actual reason these republicans voted no. Not that I trust them with kids close by, but 1 vote for a bill that looks more like a Walmart on crack than, well, a proper bill, I can imagine you end up voting in interesting ways sometimes.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 weeks ago

It really is a pervasive issue, similar to how Republicans keep ramming pet projects into budget reconciliation bills in the House. We really need legislation that bars bills from containing unrelated items in them.

[-] valkyre09@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I’m not from the states so please forgive me if this is incorrect, but I’ve read a “bill” can start out as one thing. Get a load of traction, then be changed last minute to something else entirely just before the vote. Is that true? Seems impossible track if it is

[-] Tower@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yup. Check the title of this bill vs the amendment

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s1318/text

"Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act"

Amendment: "... Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

1.Short titles; table of contents (a)Short titles This Act may be cited as the Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act."

[-] mech@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm speechless. I mean it actually makes sense in the context of the archaic US democratic system, but still...

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

they do that alot , the REPUBLICANS did this with NN bills which was actually disguising the TAX CUT of 2017.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

So that sounds good in theory, but in practice it is used to prevent anything the judiciary dislikes from being done. Have a single issue bill that all it says is it moves cannabis from class 1 to class 3 controlled substance? Well that affects interstate commerce too so whoopsie can't write that law.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

it will be hard to do that in missouri , the republicans have total control of the state.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is a strategy, and has been for years, ever since political advertising became a thing over the air. "Congressman X voted NO on a bill that would stop people from drinking raw sewage (because it also contained a section that would limit the ability of the federal government to regulate food)", etc.

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