My friends at Downsize DC are working hard to reverse the anti-gambling bill and to insure that no bill is ever passed in the same manner again. They've started an email campaign to get the bill rescinded, which you can help with by clicking here. They're also fighting to pass the Read the Bills Act, which would make it much more difficult to pass bills like this in the fly by night manner they did.
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There were lots of reasons why I wanted to see Affordable Care (née healthcare reform) pass. Ending the tyranny of "pre-existing conditions," of cruel recissions, and insuring more than 30 million uninsured Americans were big reasons.
It turns out that Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia also had a secret hold on the bill, not just Ted Stevens. That is no surprise to anyone who knows Washington. Byrd is the Democratic doppelganger to the Republican Stevens.
Follow up reposted from ScienceDebate:
By a vote of 94-3, Louisiana's House of Representatives today passed an academic freedom bill that would protect teachers and school districts who wish to promote critical thinking and objective discussion about evolution and other scientific topics.
I'm a huge fan of the read the bills act. There are so many law geeks that bills would get picked over with fine toothed combs. I'm sure that many politicians will fight to the death to stop it.