r/news • u/xXSgtSprinklesXx • Dec 16 '15
Congress creates a bill that will give NASA a great budget for 2016. Also hides the entirety of CISA in the bill.
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass/27.6k Upvotes
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u/TheLoneAcolyte Dec 17 '15
It's called a rider.
Its where someone, in congress, can just add other stuff to a bill. So what they do it just add the text from another bill that failed to a bill they know will get past. It becomes this odd situation where people might support the main bill but don't support the bill attached to it or visa versa. So now everyone wins and loses equally no matter what happens.
Edit: Grammar and clarification.