Outlawing Illegal Stuff and Stuff that Doesn’t Matter
Posted by Jim Harper
The new crop of bills in the House has some real time-wasters.
Here’s another bill to make it illegal to counterfeit inauguration tickets. We talked about this before.
And here’s a bill that’s none of Congress’ business.
Your elected representatives at busy-work.
Update: Here’s the new, 111th Congress version of the bill to require a fair and equitable [...]
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Speaking of the Inauguration . . .
Posted by Jim Harper
A new bill in the Senate would outlaw the selling and counterfeiting of tickets to the inauguration.
D’ya actually think it was legal before? No, counterfeiting and selling tickets to an event like that is common law fraud, which is illegal everywhere.
But it’s nice to see some new bills after so many weeks off. [...]
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