What about Big Education (no child gets ahead), CFR, Part D? Add those, also. The article is correct, but there is more, much more.
Question: why didn't these oh-so-brave congresscritters stand up against all this other crap? Did they HAVE to wait until the dam broke?
The congresscritters to which you refer lost their moral compass decades ago while staggering about on the range chewing loco weed.
They are, to put it mildly, whimpering, snorting hogs.