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Editorial: House clogs up Congress with polluter 'riders'
Congress is pressing up against a deadline to pass a $900 billion omnibus spending bill, dubbed the "megabus" – or the government shuts down when current funding runs out on Friday.
Congress also is pressing up on a deadline to extend the one-year payroll tax cut – or it expires on Dec. 31. The House Republican majority passed a version on this yesterday that is unacceptable to the president and the Senate Democratic majority.
We're at this juncture, in large measure, because House Republicans, once again, are trying to attach "poison pill" policy riders to these must-pass spending bills.
This is despite promises they made to Americans leading up to the 2010 election, and enshrined in their "Pledge to America'' document of September 2010. They had pledged to "end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with must-pass legislation to circumvent the will of the American people."
So much for their denunciations of "backroom deals, phantom amendments, and bills that go unread before being forced through Congress.
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