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Acronym Bills
April 12, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Some Suggestions for Republicans’ Laundry List of Idiotic Bills
Republicans are really prioritizing bills about household appliances.
February 14, 2022
Matt Ford
Death to the Acronym Bills!
The not-funny names that lawmakers invent to sell their policy ideas are evidence of a legislative body in deep decline.

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