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LOL, I remember the law allowing people to bring guns into national parks was tacked onto the credit card bill (not that I would ever support a ban).
Rep. Marino Introduces DownsizeDC.org's "One Subject at a Time Act"
PR Newswire
AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "It's been a long time since Congress needed a majority to pass a law," says Jim Babka, President of DownsizeDC.org, Inc. "But that could change, thanks to Congressman Tom Marino of Pennsylvania (R-10), who has introduced our 'One Subject at a Time Act' (OSTA) in Congress."
"OSTA would require each bill Congress passes to be about one subject only," Babka explains. "This would end the practice of clustering unrelated measures into one package. Congressional leaders have long used this trick to pass unpopular laws on the strength of the popular proposals with which they're unnaturally joined. OSTA would end this fraud forever."
"Every bill would have to stand or fall on its own merits," declares Babka.
Congressman Marino told his cons uents that Obamacare was a big motivation for introducing OSTA. "In order to garner enough votes to pass the law, a host of unrelated measures were tacked onto Obamacare," says Marino.
"But multi-subject bills are an old bipartisan problem. DownsizeDC.org created OSTA in response to numerous omnibus bills passed when the Republicans controlled Congress. For instance, the massively unpopular Real ID Act was only passed because the Republican leadership included it in an Emergency Troop Appropriation bill. That bill also included tsunami relief! Another example is the ban on Internet poker. It was included in a Port Security bill," says Babka.
Babka commends Representative Marino for his leadership and applauds the Williamsport Tea Party for their crucial support. "Now we can begin to collect co-sponsors for this vital reform," Babka concluded.
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LOL, I remember the law allowing people to bring guns into national parks was tacked onto the credit card bill (not that I would ever support a ban).
Good bill. The best part of its inevitable failure (it'll probably never even get a vote or debate on the floor) is that you'd be hard pressed to find a Legislator who will speak against it (like Campaign Finance Reform) but they secretly all hate it as it hurts their own ability to play dirty tricks ("I hate dirty tricks... well, when someone else does them!")
only way it passes is if he tags an initiative on to it like free starbucks for life for congress.
wouldnt that be a legal mind ?
this political system is a ing joke because whenever any whistle-blowing like this surfaces it is completely ignored by virtually all media.
the true irony is that only way they will get this to pass is by slipping it in a 400-page bill that the congress has 10 minutes to read and vote on.
Before I read this, I was thinking that it would be beautifully ironic for this measure to be tacked on to the end of some "Every citizen gets a $100 bill tomorrow" sort of bill.
They'll just bypass that with a 'prevote', if I pass this you pass that, then send it to the house.
You really want the govt. bill on every little proposal? Unfortunately, this idea won't stop passing stupid proposals, that will have to happen in committee...but it does make govt. more inefficient....
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