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House GOP Adds Dozens More Poison Pills to Spending Bill
(www.commondreams.org)
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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Adding phrases to become law which have nothing to do with the scope and intention of the overall bill, and are generally wild additions that have no hope of passing on their own.
Sometimes they’re added to intentionally bog down a bill so it won’t pass. The riders are used as a sort of narcissistic bargaining chip in political “negotiation”.