• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    That’s the point. Opposition bills in the US are often put forth to force members of the majority party to publicly vote against it, so that there is public record of their position on things.

    It’s an easy system to game, too, since it’s trivially easy to include a poisoned pill in the bill that will push the members to reject it.