[Post-Neolithic]

Are you sure this was the bill? The bill title at the page was,

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes.

Because if it is the bill, I can think of one Republican that just lost a lot of respect I had for him.

[Publius6961]

Are you sure this was the bill? The bill title at the page was,
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
That, friends, is something else that absolutely has to stop!
The biggest giveaway of the last 80 years, and it's under "other purposes."

I think it's time to have single-purpose laws that the taxpayer can understand, look at and comment on BEFORE they vote.

And Congesscritters of both houses should be subject to impeachment and jail time if they vote on any law they have not read and understood.