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Can what? Care about precisely which 75+ year old movies I can watch without paying $2 for the privilege? What makes you think this could ever be a serious motivating issue for the electorate?

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you can squeeze any law into other laws, they are called riders. in some cases the barrier of entry is extremely low because the host-bill is required to open the government or something very time sensitive.

the point is that the electorate doesn't care and you don't want them to.

Ok great. Brb I'll be calling my congressman for my local pork needs to be amended to the next defense budget bill. While I'm at it i could use some extra barrels for shipping.

Most people do not have this purported easy access to Capitol Hill it is not trivial to get it done under a certa8n amount of fiscal influence. Please qualify your use of the word easy with numbers please, else its just empty words

As I wrote earlier, easier than before because the country is so polarized and incumbent special interests decided - like the general population - to move to the far fringes of their ideology as a future investment into the country leaving representatives pretty unoccupied this session. Not extremely easy because Congress is not passing many bills.

A lot of people, including myself, believe that adding completely unrelated items onto a billis completely unacceptable. Putting a high priority bill at risk for an unrelated pet topic is selfish and wrong.

Its also contrary to all best parliamentary practice and should be ruled out of order.

Oh I am flabbergasted and continually amused at the concept, but it is still a tool available for use

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