> This ability to tack random unrelated legislation onto a bill makes no sense to me. "Legislation" is the "bill," which is what makes this problematic. At a h

> This ability to tack random unrelated legislation onto a bill makes no sense to me. "Legislation" is the "bill," which is what makes this problematic. At a high level, the only thing that relates the first page of a bill to the 10th page of the same bill is the fact that they are both included in the same document. This is definitional stuff. Congress could choose to appropriate funds for each department in a separate bill. One could then easily take the POV that it's swampy to tack on the education funding legislation to the defense appropriations bill.