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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
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What's more bothersome to me is the nagging suspicion that the law was initially written that way intentionally, maybe the product of wording provided by a big company lobby which wasn't read before passage by the Congress that voted it in.
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Happens all the time. The legislators don't write the bills. Sometimes their aides do, and quite often they receive draft bills from a host of sources (which the legislator's staff edit and then submit as the legislator's "work product"). So, quite often bills never get fully researched as to see which existing laws are affected. Legislators want the publicity associated with bills, and take no pride in authorship when the conflicts occur downstream.