BASTARDS!! Holding out money to get what they want.....BRIBERY in reverse, but just as bad!!!!!
it's properly referred to as "Black-Mail", and is used frequently to force individual states to toe the Federal line.
Remember the national 55 MPH speed limit?
.08 alcohol DUI level?
Seat-belt laws?
There are many more examples.
Congress has been corrupted and abusing power it does not legitimately have for a long time.
That they would use it to insulate themselves from the laws the rest of us have to follow is nothing new, remember "Congressional Immunity"?