I genuinely laughed out loud at the bill's original name.
I genuinely laughed out loud at the bill's original name.
Years ago I ran into the fun hack introduced in Britain's laws during my lifetime. Modern laws provide short names for themselves, so an Act might say you can refer to this as the "1996 Goat Prevention Act" and even though it has an unwieldy long full name that shorter name works everywhere you need to name it, but some older laws don't do this, so that's annoying, and also if you've repealed the law you can't use a short name which no longer exists because the law itself was repealed and that's where the short name comes from.
So, they passed a law which said when you repeal a law which gives any law a short name, those short names still work anyway. Then they passed a law which just provides convenient short names for laws people often want to refer to but don't come with short names, then they repealed that second law. Done.
Personally I think they names should be more humorous and creative but I think this one is way, way better than stupid contradictory names like the PATRIOT act.
She's a poster child for "evil congress lizard" the same way that the Kochs and Soros and Murdoch are poster children for "evil billionares" even though there's richer ones.
I'd say that we reached a nadir with "119th Congress (2025-2026): One Big Beautiful Bill Act", but that would be tempting fate.