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legitstertoday at 5:20 PM0 repliesview on HN

This is 100% how legislation gets written when none of reps have experience and the only calls they take are from lobbyists.

It's easy to imagine the manufacturer reps are playing games with the lawmakers. "Oh no, this is going to be really hard on us! It's going to cost us so much money! But I guess we can comply if we have to."