Letter from Maureen Dill
Legislative Riders Bad for Country
Once again in this week’s news we are hearing warnings of the consequences if the House should fail to approve the Senate bill passed more than a month ago calling for $60 billion in aid for Ukraine.
The bill is currently stalled in the House of Representatives due to an attached amendment known as a “legislative rider.” A legislative rider is an additional provision or amendment attached to a bill under consideration that may often have no connection to the proposed bill.
A rider may often be used as a weapon of partisan politics by some members of Congress, sometimes called a “wrecking amendment,” as is the case of the border security amendment attached to the Senate bill in question.
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