This is just the first in a long list of "messaging" bills that will come from a very slim Republican House, because there is Democratic control of the Senate.

They know it won't become law. The point is to rile up the media, get hits on cable news, fund raise, and generally be useless as a governing body. This is what both parties do when they are out of power, and I would say is what they _prefer_ to do. It's easier than governing, makes them money, gets them media attention, etc.

Both parties here in the US _want_ to be minority parties so that they can behave this way and assume no actual responsibility for anything.