Hi cap mag ban bill is dead

[cobber]

I will likely express my disappointment with his thoughts (apparently I am a constituent?).

You don't know? Better check on this before November!

 

[cobber]

Putting the magzine ban in a bill that is "badly needed" is so underhanded and kiniving that I can't believe our government plays childish games like this every day. It is beyond unprofessional, it is unethical. If something is not DIRECTLY related to the bill, it should not be included in the bill, ever, period. Pork barrel projects are also thrown into just about every bill, and this is a pathetic practice, unworthy of this nation.

Every bill should be voted on its merits, and not tainted by unrelated things that are trying to pass under the radar. The problem is that if this cyber security bill was good, and needed badly enough, we would have a magazine ban right now, even though people were voting based on the merits of the cyber security.

IMO this represents the single biggest problem with Washington. Politicians obscur and complicate everything by bending the rules and basically cheating or gaming the system. They keep doing it because the government rarely passes bills restricting its own actions, even if they are completely flawed, but they LOVE regulating other industries and telling them how to operate. The irony.

Nah, we need more such amendments to kill bills. See if Congress can go two years without passing one single thing. That would be historical.

 

[Uncle Lee]

The "Bill" might be dead, but it might not be buried yet.

After defeat of Senate cybersecurity bill, Obama weighs executive-order option - The Hill's Hillicon Valley

 

[.38 Special]

oh yeah!

 

[Jim Duncan]

Look for the executive to go around congress and essentially do the same thing via exec order..... as with so many other matters.

 

[Uncle Lee]

The Constitution will protect us only as long we protect it.

It appears that the Constitution is being bypassed now days.