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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2417332, member: 59677&quot;]Of course it&#039;s political: it allows staff to tell the constituents that &quot;the Congress Critter has submitted a bill&quot;. It has no chance of ever becoming law, but the congresscritters submitted a bill to address your concern.</p><p><br /></p><p>It happens thousands of times every legislative session, in every legislature in the land. The bill gets referred to committee and is never heard from again. It is also nothing new - when I was researching the $0.03 silver legislation in the eighteen-fifties, the Congressional Globe would start each legislative day with a long list of bills that have been submitted and they were all referred to committee most of them never to be heard from again[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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