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So, it looks like the Blund amendment on contraception stuff was being attached to a transportation bill.
What the hell does contraception have to do with transportation?
And all sorts of stupid earmarks and political point-scoring is attached to things like defence appropriations bills and no-really-this-is-obviously-needed bills.
I think a lot of the ways in which the Houses of Congress achieve their most ridiculous failures and wastes of money could perhaps be easily repaired if it was made a hard and fast rule that any amendment to legislation must pertain directly to the legislation in question. If it's not an amendment to the text of the proposal, adjusting the precise details of the legislation, then it's ruled invalid and dismissed outright.
Otherwise everything Congress does will become a messy, random wall of bullshit, and the laws passed will be completely inane.
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