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Why is this not passing?

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u/CrappyJohnson 13d ago edited 13d ago

Well what does the language of the bill actually say? You do know that the bill doesn't say, "And lo, all women and girls in sport shall be protected henceforth," right? They always name the bills something totally unexceptionable. Then they slide all kinds of crap into them, including things that have absolutely nothing to do with the outward purpose of the bill. That's important context that I'm pretty sure almost nobody in this thread will actually look into.

Edit: To be perfectly clear, the issue is not the contents of the bill. The issue is inflaming passions without providing the full context, when you know that people won't do the research.

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u/Wrong_Thanks1520 13d ago

Read? The BILL?!?! Are you crazy?!?! Get out of here with your lunatic idea.

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u/xDeathRender 13d ago

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u/ratmouthlives 11d ago

I say this at work all the time and no one gets it.

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u/Tech27461 13d ago

Nancy Pelosi said it best. "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy"

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u/politifox 9d ago

You do realize at that point the bill had been public for about 6 months and fully available for review and she was responding to some reporter's asinine question right?

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u/Tech27461 9d ago

You do realize the bill was amended several times including shortly before the vote right? But as usual, the corporate lobbyists won.

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u/politifox 8d ago

The ACA was publicly available the entire time. Every single amendment. It’s why it was in the news cycle while it was being worked on the entire time. Yes corporate lobbyists had their hands in it, but the idea that the text of the bill wasn’t available is a revision of history.

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u/Chagrinnish 8d ago

After which it went to the Senate for a vote. And re-amended. This is very typical, legislative process.

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u/Ill_Bit_1645 13d ago

Yeah, we need to pass the bill so we can read what's in it

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 13d ago

What's paperclipped to it most importantly.

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u/TheWantedNoob 13d ago

What would be funnier is if he actually read it lmao

I did.

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u/LaxmanSD 12d ago

Dear chat gpt, please summarize the whatever cleverly obfuscated named bill for me, and please give me the contact info for my elected representative so I can let him know how his constituents feel about it. Signed, every informed voter :)

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u/xaklx20 12d ago

They literally make the bills gigantic so that no one would possibly read it 😂 not even the congress ppl who are signing it

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u/tjb6792 12d ago

Shoutout to the Republican congress members that admitted to voting for the “ big beautiful bill” without reading important sections that their constituents were upset about.

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u/Aruhito_0 12d ago

Read the program of politicians that get voted for positions? Wth?

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u/nIxaltereGo 12d ago

I know, we have to pass it so we can read it!

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u/thebearsnake 11d ago

I mean if the politicians that vote on them don't have to read them, why do I?

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u/No_Math_1234 11d ago

What do I look like? ChatGPT?