[sophacles]

How do you get that congress was paid to make this happen? It could just be normal republican tactics for proving that government is bad by making laws to move the goalposts when things are bad.

[roymurdock]

Sure, it could be purely political.

The bill might also be a result of regulatory capture, which is what I was suggesting and seems fairly plausible to me.

And I still have yet to see any actual citations rather than speculation.