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No bill should include anything that is not essential to the bill. I don't care how the adding of unrelated stuff is stopped as long as it is stopped. In fact, I am so against adding on unrelated stuff, I would be in favor of shooting the person who does add something unrelated to a bill.
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I agree Athena. There is a House Rule about 'germaneness.Line items in a Bill are supposed to be relevant(germane) to the main subject of the Bill. Problem is, its ignored and thats why all sorts of pork(earmarks) is inserted into many Bills.
Pelosi was harping about this a few weeks back. But her remarks were ignored and quickly faded. I think that was about the 20 billion in earmarks added to an emergency military appropriation bill? Most of that money was for other purposes and designed as a sop for constituents.