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javanix
I'm sure this is far from the first time something simple got messed up because of a mistake with data entry.

Implying that Congress "didn't even bother to name it" seems a bit unnecessary.

fugue88
To be fair, naming a bill is a lot of work, maybe over half of what goes into the whole package.
elbenshira
I don't understand why this was submitted. This isn't very interesting at all.
eli
For some reason it garnered a bunch of angry comments on slashdot. I couldn't figure it out either.
eli
Not really much of a story here. The bill was amended and renamed several times and at one point it briefly had a placeholder title. Plenty of reasons to be made at Congress, but I don't see how this is one of them.

It passed the house as "Aviation Safety and Investment Act of 2010." You can read the text here: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1586/text