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They were starting to pile on completely unrelated riders, it needed to go regardless of the contents.
by cyber 14y ago
They were starting to pile on completely unrelated riders, it needed to go regardless of the contents.
- malandrew 14y agoI'm starting to think that completely unrelated riders may be far more effective than filibustering. Don't like a proposed law? Pad it with enough crap until everyone thinks it stinks.
- chipser 14y agoKilling a bill with unpopular amendments is indeed a time-honored tradition in legislatures everywhere.
- aaronblohowiak 14y ago...and then you can say "so and so voted AGAIST GRANDMOTHERS!!!"
- caf 14y agoI'm not so sure. In most legislatures, if you have the numbers to move an unpopular amendment, you also have the numbers to defeat the original bill.
- rdl 14y agoI was kind of glad they added both firearms ban and abortion ban to the same bill, making sure it would lose.