[slipnslider]

Repealing SB174 has bipartisan support. The house already passed its repeal but it died in Senate because a separate took (that also repealed it) took its place but that separate bill stalled out.

174 is so small it can't go through both chambers on its own so it needs to get attached a larger bill like OBBA.

It's unfortunate because it appears both sides want this repealed to allow immediate amortization of domestic R&D expenses.

https://abgi-usa.com/section174/latest-and-greatest

[formerly_proven]

> 174 is so small it can't go through both chambers on its own so it needs to get attached a larger bill like OBBA.

There's a minimum size for laws?

[coliveira]

Theoretically no, but congress won't vote anything that has no collateral advantages to everybody involved.

[Braxton1980]

Why would a senator from Kentucky vote for a bill that doesn't benefit his state to a meaningful amount?

[weberer]

Anything that's not a budget reconciliation bill can just get filibustered in the senate by the minority party. That's why they're attaching everything to the OBBBA.

[Pet_Ant]

I think there is a limit on the number of bills that can make it through the procedures so it’s too low profile to get scheduled.

[cibyr]

It's so depressing to hear that congress can't even do small things that everyone agrees upon.

[Supermancho]

If they could be required to craft single issue bills, this wouldn't be as big an issue. Instead we get the clusters of good and bad that inevitably die or sometimes worse, pass.

[dragonwriter]

If everyone agreed on it, Congress would have no problem doing it (Congress itself, after all, is a subset of "everyone".)