Lawmaking: sometimes the sausage comes with a funny smell

Reporters call covering the legislature “watching them make the sausage.”

A lot goes into making sausage — not just in terms of labor. I suspect that if some people knew more about the ingredients that went into the sausage they ate, they might choose another menu item.

Lawmaking works the same way.

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