User blog comment:FireBird-/Law Bill S.978 Can Shut Down Gaming Videos on Youtube!/@comment-4081799-20110725071115

If I had a dime for every bill that was proposed, pissed people off before it even made it to its first sub-committee, and died a quiet death, I would be making more money than the yokels who draft these things up.

This is S.978, which means it is the nine hundred, seventy-eighth bill to be proposed in the 112th Session of Senate. The 112th Congress has barely been around for half a year. This should get you a proper appreciation for exactly how many bills are proposed by the folks on Capitol Hill.

More than half of these bills do not make it through the requisite processes before they are annihilated by the election of a new Congress. Combine that with the fact that the House is owned by a party that necessarily votes against the Senate, and I'm left wondering why we're suddenly worried by another ultimately doomed attempt by the federal government to expand its power.