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it's not their problem until it is eg. snap
Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
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#12Not only that, the same bill includes a provision which allows "...eight Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the Biden administration's investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot." [1]. This ability to tack random unrelated legislation onto a bill makes no sense to me. [1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deal-end-us-shutdow…
Always amazes me that we allow multiple bills to be packaged together. Needs to be one bill = 1 vote. Not hundreds/thousands of pages of bills no one will read all rushed through because funding.
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#13is this the ongoing legacy of big pharma influence in government? there must be some reason why tapping this sign is not good enough for their purposes, maybe it’s too hard to enforce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act
Another comment pointed to the alcohol industry:
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#15The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people and we’re going to continue to get absurd unrepresentative outcomes for as long as it remains a relevant body. There’s no getting around this and it will structurally just get worse and worse. Simply no way something like it exists 200 years from now, it is probably the biggest flaw in the US political structure right now.
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#16Alcohol lobbyists did this. Amazing swamp :(
I was really stupid to think Republicans wanted a clean CR and Democrats wanted to help people with insurance.
Both sides wanted to slip in something their lobbyists wanted, and they did it. Win.
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#17The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people and we’re going to continue to get absurd unrepresentative outcomes for as long as it remains a relevant body. There’s no getting around this and it will structurally just get worse and worse. Simply no way something like it exists 200 years from now, it is probably the biggest flaw in the US political structure right now.
Having the house capped is also ridiculous. My rep is also the rep for 750k+ other people. One person cannot represent a district that size appropriately at a federal level. They also cannot really respond to constituents properly either when they have that many.
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#18One thing I think most Americans can agree on is that Congress is utterly useless.
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#19Each and every character inserted in a Bill must have an owner: who inserted that character. Google Docs can do this. Why can't the Congress??
I agree with the sentiment in general, but in this case it seems extremely well known:
https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-11-11/mcconnell-paul-clash-ove...
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#20The alcohol lobbyists did this. > And in a letter Monday obtained by MJBizDaily, representatives from major alcohol lobbies urged senators to thwart Paul’s efforts. > His “shortsighted actions could threaten the delicately balanced deal to reopen the federal government,” a Nov. 10 letter from the American Distilled Spirits Alliance, Distilled Spirits Council, Wine Institute, Beer Institute and Wine America reads. htt…
That’s my guess too. Here in Canada, certain alcohol sales have been in decline since legalization. Not surprising.