1,603-Page Bill - 5 Awful Things Congress Snuck Into the Omnibus Budget Deal

Mike Lee is awesome

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Yawn. This is nothing new.

Also, do you even know what happens inside of Congress? The Congress portrayed on the news does not equal what actually happens behind the scenes, especially in committees.

 

[/I]#3) NULLIFICATION OF VOTER-BACKED mar1juana LEGALIZATION IN D.C.

The 2014 Midterms saw voters in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. vote to legalize mar1juana for recreational use. Unlike in Alaska and Oregon, however, the D.C. ballot measure is subject to congressional approval. So, despite the fact that the actual citizens of Washington, D.C. voted for legalization by a margin of more than 2 to 1, anti-legalization advocates in Congress attached a rider that completely undoes the voter-backed change and keeps mar1juana illegal.

While this is basically a middle finger to the 70% of D.C. residents who voted for legalization, I'm sure the pharmaceutical industry and alcohol manufacturers -- both of whom regularly fund anti-legalization campaigns and spend millions of dollars every year to buy political influence -- are pretty happy about the outcome.[/I]

And who says your vote doesn't count...