It all started when Congress passed the “_______Act of______.” In their haste to get a bill passed and get out of town for the August (2010) recess, the House and Senate left blank the lines where they were supposed to give the common name for H.R. 1586, which became Public Law 111-226. C|Net news picked [...]
What a mess the Senate has made of H.R. 1586. It’s a package of spending and revenue measures—but we’ll ignore the substance for now because they have so utterly goofed up the name. As we noted here before, this is a “shell bill.” It was introduced as one thing (TARP taxes), became another thing (an [...]
Oops! Posted it early! Had too much fun Saturday night and didn’t pay proper attention to Sunday’s chores. We sure don’t want to spoil the nation’s anticipation of seeing the contents of our weekly email posted tomorrow. But since the link went out to our Twitter feed, we don’t want to take it down and [...]