Omnibus bills corrupt the democratic process and their usage should be curtailed. This isn't strictly an American problem either.
... Shelby is dick deep in with the Banks
... the real question is, to back the truck up a bit, and ask why the hell the bitcoin legislation was put into this bill in the first place? Who wrote that text? (It reads like something the IRS/FED/Banks cartel would produce) ... Who got it attached to that Bill?
... all the horse trading after that was theatre, Cruz's attempt to get the whole thing struck out was the only sane move in the whole political shitshow.