Stop being reasonable. Agreeing with me twice in one day, this is completely unacceptable.

They passed ONE bill, 5593 pages. Pretty sure the Israel $500m is described within 'Division C'. COVID is 'Division M' low priority I guess.
https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf

Instead of people asking 'Why is the COVID relief bill 5593 pages?', they should be wondering why it was tagged onto the general appropriations bill? Likely a move to expedite a porkbill through the channels.

I don't begin to understand politicians, but why not craft a tactical short and sweet relief bill?

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Dec 22 2020 10:37pm

600$ per extra child, this is great no ?

It was done as an appropriations bill to move through the process faster once they actually started trying. Appropriations have to be passed every year, so by tieing it to the general funding of the government they basically tell everybody that if they vote no they're also shutting down the government. It also limits the number of committees it has to go through to get done.

Anyway, long story sort its appropriations because it removes red tape, and they actually want to pass it now that the election is over.

Interesting. Based on your post, I went back and looked it up, and indeed, the bill passed with a veto-proof majority in both House and Senate. Trump cannot veto. It appears the 2K will be a standalone measure, and nobody's even certain whether it will be a replacement to the $600, or on top of it.

Fun times.

The bill is probably a 2k pager if it were formatted as a technical document. It's a shame our representatives don't know how to create a table of contents on a PDF. Hard to comprehend with the sentences all sliced up with margins occupying 50% of the page.

Working as intended. If it's easily scannable, people might understand it and vote it down.

"You must pass it to find out what's in it."

for whatever reason this has been by best year in 10 years

i'm assuming because all the tradesmen are staying home and collecting CERB

fucking idiots, i just bought a boat

Ditto on the boat :), there have been a lot of great opportunities during the 'panic' demic. What boat did you pickup?

panic demic?