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Slipping through legislation: all too often members of Congress use legislative strategies to secure the passage of harmful bills that would otherwise potentially fail on the congressional floor.(CONGRESS)
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Congress introduces many thousands of pieces of legislation each congressional term. Only a fraction of that legislation ever makes it to the voting floor, and even a smaller number passes both houses of Congress in order to be signed into law by the president.
Determining what laws are allowed to come into existence is not a random game of "eeny, meeny, miny, moe," but rather a carefully planned strategy by lawmakers, and oftentimes White House officials, that forces life-altering changes onto the American population. For instance, the Real ID Act, which was deviously passed by Congress in 2005 though not yet implemented, will ...
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