We're bailing out WHAT?

[unixronin]

From danjite:

The latest version of the "Bailout Bill" creates tax credits or benefits for:

- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)

- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)

- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)

- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)

- Auto Racing Tracks (317)

- Wool Research (Sec. 325)

I ain't saying nothing.

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, OVER

This "bailout" gets more surreal by the day.  Did someone put LSD in the Congressional coffee pot?

Comments

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Thanks.

That's strange...they basically made an omnibus budget bill.

But I think it's important to note that only Division A (which ends at section 302) is the actual Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Everything else in the bill is separate from the Stablization Act. It's all in the same bill, so a vote for one is a vote for all, but the things outside of Division A are not a part of the Stabilization Act.

Not how I would have chosen to do it...I mean, you'd think they'd do the Economic Stabilization Act in a bill by itself, if for no other reason than to avoid causing the confusion we're seeing here. That said, this is a fairly common procedural shortcut.

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Yeah, they attach stuff as riders that they don't think would pass on its own.... and collect stuff into massive bills that nobody will ever read in full before voting. :p