That isn’t how legislation is passed. If anything, it needs a section about acceptable tar shingle application standards for roofs within 6 nautical miles of any heliport operated in a subarctic area on the west cost. Then it’s looking like a bill.
Just last year, Congress snapped to attention and wrote and quickly passed a bill to ban the eminent national security threat of a video-sharing app. That bill doesn't do anything else.
Just a reminder that Congress, even now, can rapidly act on a laser focus when it is sufficiently motivated.
Perhaps not the best example to choose given that the president managed to fully ignore that law. Tik-Tok remains unbanned to this day despite there being no sale.
Is there a good summary of that episode somewhere? I've tried to read up on it as I don't really understand how it was an eminent (imminent?) security threat.
There's a little of this, but more so, you only get one reconciliation bill per year. And anything that's not a reconciliation bill has to be bipartisan.
That isn’t how legislation is passed. If anything, it needs a section about acceptable tar shingle application standards for roofs within 6 nautical miles of any heliport operated in a subarctic area on the west cost. Then it’s looking like a bill.
Just last year, Congress snapped to attention and wrote and quickly passed a bill to ban the eminent national security threat of a video-sharing app. That bill doesn't do anything else.
Just a reminder that Congress, even now, can rapidly act on a laser focus when it is sufficiently motivated.
Perhaps not the best example to choose given that the president managed to fully ignore that law. Tik-Tok remains unbanned to this day despite there being no sale.
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Because almost no voters would be against the bill and it harms almost none of the supporters of representatives
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Is there a good summary of that episode somewhere? I've tried to read up on it as I don't really understand how it was an eminent (imminent?) security threat.
Is the TikTok debacle not a way higher profile case?
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And it gets so bizzare that even legislators have to laugh when they read it out loud, like in this case here in Switzerland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9hztUCq15o
There's a little of this, but more so, you only get one reconciliation bill per year. And anything that's not a reconciliation bill has to be bipartisan.
You forgot renewing the Patriot Act :)