In a piece of legislation recently passed by the House and the Senate to revamp patent law, a tiny provision was inserted at the last minute called Section 18.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers today answered a rising call from a broad range of citizens, corporate food producers, farmers and environmentalists to overturn a tiny provision, tucked into the huge omnibus spending bill that had loosened an organic food standard to benefit a single chicken company in Georgia.
Second, because he is chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities, Mr. Hefley was able to insert a tiny provision in a mammoth Defense Department bill, passed by the House in May, that the Pentagon believes would have the effect of thwarting its policy.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Tucked into the giant spending bill that Congress passed last month is a tiny provision that has some academic researchers seeing red: Their data may be fair game for anyone who asks.
Lastly, noticeable consternation over social media and tech blogs over a law to push through a tiny provision of SOPA (an international property rights task force) was defeated 24 hours after the public got wind of it.
But creating an advisory body focused on eliminating government red tape a tiny provision in a 996-page bill to accelerate medical research that could become law next month is no less important to maintaining the health of the research community than is the infusion of billions of dollars, higher education lobbyists say.
What I do know is that tucked in the interstices of the act was a tiny provision that said the IRS could turn over tax collection to private agencies.
Accounting for only a few pages of legislation, this tiny tax provision has multi-million-dollar consequences and represents an aggressive policy favoring investors and entrepreneurs.
This tiny, positive provision that would have ensured foster youth had documents like Social Security cards, birth certificates and health insurance cards to help them make it on their own when they aged out of foster care would have added $12 million to the 10-year cost of the bill four thousandths of a percent of the cost to taxpayers of those huge non-offset corporate tax break extenders.
