"It's highly likely that there are provisions like these in many governing documents," Mr. Poretz said.
Jesse Eisinger of Propublica says this is especially true for provisions like the Volcker Rule, which separates a bank's consumer lending and proprietary investing divisions.
It's sobering that in Australia, a provision like this would be seen as radical.
In 2006, a provision like this held up the defense bill for weeks.
"If they passed a provision like this in Washington, D.C., where I live and work, I would benefit from going to my employer the next day and ask them to start paying me as an independent contractor," the foundation's Scott Drenkard said in January testimony to the Kansas legislature.
When you can muster provisions like these, who cares if you can write?
Signing provisions like the ones in the House and Senate versions into law would do lasting harm to the country.
The government now call provisions like these "perverse incentives" and argue that they should be removed from our social security provision.
He highlighted other provisions like the lack of a cap on awards for pain and suffering and an allowance of 9 percent interest on judgments.
Judge Kavanaugh reminds his fellow arch-conservatives that provisions like the individual mandate might be critical for conservative reform of government entitlement programs.
