Comment by slipnslider
6 months ago
Repealing SB174 has bipartisan support. The house already passed its repeal but it died in Senate because a separate took (that also repealed it) took its place but that separate bill stalled out.
174 is so small it can't go through both chambers on its own so it needs to get attached a larger bill like OBBA.
It's unfortunate because it appears both sides want this repealed to allow immediate amortization of domestic R&D expenses.
> 174 is so small it can't go through both chambers on its own so it needs to get attached a larger bill like OBBA.
There's a minimum size for laws?
Theoretically no, but congress won't vote anything that has no collateral advantages to everybody involved.
Which is one of the many ways in which the system is broken.
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Why would a senator from Kentucky vote for a bill that doesn't benefit his state to a meaningful amount?
Because they are a patriot. If not why are they in politics..?! Whom am I kidding...
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It does benefit his state, they will get higher quality software.
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Seriously?
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Anything that's not a budget reconciliation bill can just get filibustered in the senate by the minority party. That's why they're attaching everything to the OBBBA.
I think there is a limit on the number of bills that can make it through the procedures so it’s too low profile to get scheduled.
I don’t understand the downvotes. Fewer than, say, 2% of 15000 bills pass across two sessions. 274, to be precise. Some bill is always #275.
It's so depressing to hear that congress can't even do small things that everyone agrees upon.
If they could be required to craft single issue bills, this wouldn't be as big an issue. Instead we get the clusters of good and bad that inevitably die or sometimes worse, pass.
If everyone agreed on it, Congress would have no problem doing it (Congress itself, after all, is a subset of "everyone".)
That's still not true. As long as a group within "everyone" (or multiple groups) decide that their support is required to pass the bill, they can suddenly demand concessions and the bill now gets complicated with good and bad.
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It’s possible for everyone to want something, while simultaneously being incapable of getting it done.
A highly disproportional subset of everyone, maybe. Though uncapping the house wouldn't fix the Senate (maybe adding some more states would)