US Politics on Sidechat | It should be illegal to lump stuff together in bills, I hate seeing how often a bill is written up for something actually useful but then someone adds “also congress members get an extra 200,000 dollars a year” and in order to pass, the whole bill has to.

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It should be illegal to lump stuff together in bills, I hate seeing how often a bill is written up for something actually useful but then someone adds “also congress members get an extra 200,000 dollars a year” and in order to pass, the whole bill has to.

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Anonymous 9w

im fairly certain that the lumping together actually lowers the threshold of votes needed to pass, which is absurd

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Anonymous 9w

Article V convention has proposed to fix this, among other things. Look it up.

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Anonymous

#1 9w

Yep reconciliation. The GOP keeps trying to pass SAVE Act that way too

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