> The amendment failed after Senator Richard Shelby attempted to tack on $50 billion in military infrastructure spending to it. Having no idea who this guy is

> The amendment failed after Senator Richard Shelby attempted to tack on $50 billion in military infrastructure spending to it. Having no idea who this guy is and looking him up, he's apparently 87 years old, used to be a Democrat known for working with Reagan to get huge defense bills passed, decided he was now a Republican after Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution against Clinton, he's leaked classified information to Fox News when he was on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department decided to not prosecute so the Senate could police its own, but they did nothing, he once held up court appointments until Obama agreed to fund the Stratotanker, he has apparently paid himself and his wife fractional millions from his PAC and somehow hasn't been arrested for that, he once sponsored a bill that would have made it a crime punishable by 20 years in prison to boycott Israel. He sounds like absolutely everything wrong with the US Senate. Look. I honestly can't stand cryptocurrency. I think much of the scene is everything wrong with get rich quick technobabble hype hijacking of what should have been legitimately useful ideas. But this was a totally commonsense amendment that somehow got scuttled by a near 90 year-old who almost certainly has no idea what the bill is about and doesn't care, but he exists for the sole purpose of funneling defense money to Huntsville and needed his cut, and he probably should have been in prison decades ago but instead he's making laws. Makes it feel like our country is being run by the Mafia.