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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enf...

"The Act was passed on the last day before Congress adjourned for the 2006 elections. According to Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), no one on the Senate-House Conference Committee had seen the final language of the bill before it was passed.[4][5] The Economist has written that these provisions were "hastily tacked onto the end of unrelated legislation"."

Edit to add: I agree that the ability to amend bills shouldn't be removed entirely, but it certainly needs an overhaul.