[DeadMoneyDad]

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Could you please define "must-pass" legislation?

Could you please address my hypothetical about whether the ports bill still would have been "must-pass" if, instead of the UIGEA, something even bigger had been attached to it?

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Attaching crap to must pass is one thing about our system the pisses off much of our citizens. Think in terms of all the "pork-barrel" attached to even non-spending bills. With an annual budget of over a 1/4 of a trillion dollars and about 28% of GDP, reality for these folks is subjective.

Must pass legislation is generall considered a spending bill that is not passed would both adversley affect the country and ususally written such a way and passed at such a time as to be political poision.

I do not know off hand the "political fate" of the two who voted against nor their "political" justification, perhaps they simply pressed the wrong button. Sorry to say out of 435 members it happens more often than people think.



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