Not to attack you, but when did "up or down" become a necessary qualifier on "vote"? Last I checked, all votes are binary.
(More to the point: when congress voted on the housing bill, they voted on this, too; it got a vote. It's naive to imply that all legislation that passes through congress somehow gets its own dedicated vote, and that it's "crooked" to put stuff into omnibus bills. This is how the sausage gets made, and it has been made the same way since the beginning....)
(More to the point: when congress voted on the housing bill, they voted on this, too; it got a vote. It's naive to imply that all legislation that passes through congress somehow gets its own dedicated vote, and that it's "crooked" to put stuff into omnibus bills. This is how the sausage gets made, and it has been made the same way since the beginning....)