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[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's because Congress doesn't have a single subject rule.

43 states have it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule

E: There are some good reasons why Congress doesn't have it. First, Congress does soooooo much stuff that it might be utterly impossible to do it one subject at a time. That's why we have omnibus bills for things such as spending, which includes the budgets of all or most federal departments. Along with reconciliation and appropriations bills, it's how a lot of business gets done and how compromises are made. A single subject rule would clear up a lot of the pork, but night just grind things to a hault just by the shear number of bills that would have to be written, debated, and voted.

Another reason is that it opens a whole new category of litigation as to whether or not the title of the bill matches the subject of the bill; the standard is one of whether the title alone would give fair notice as to the range of subject matter in the bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel

[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I wish we had this for a long time in Congress.

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