The rising popularity of anti-debt politics is having a huge impact on the amount of pork amendments that are introduced in Congress. Meanwhile, amendments now

The rising popularity of anti-debt politics is having a huge impact on the amount of pork amendments that are introduced in Congress. Meanwhile, amendments now serve the purpose of attaching valence issues (i.e. hyped up issues that turn voters into idiots) onto any significant piece of legislation. See Congress now -- having trouble deciding whether Planned Parenthood funding is worth shutting down the entire federal government. But the solutin isn't getting rid of amendatory processes, because those processes aren't the root of any contemporary problem. Amendmory processes have been around since long before the US was even a country.