Always remember the answer to your question: voters elected representatives that thought it was a very good idea.
Democracy stinks sometimes. But dealing with it means addressing these issues in the general public to nudge people into electing better representatives.
This whole mess is about the people we elected to Congress. The last ones left a mess and the new ones are doing a questionable job cleaning it up.
We should probably stop electing such people.
@volkris
Absolutely, it is the fault of the Republicans elected to Congress. Spreading good info like this will hopefully help nudge voters in the right direction.