Rep. Joe Barton (Loony Town) Freaks Out Over His Bill H.R. 666

 

Rep. Joe Barton (Texas) isn’t about to have his prized legislation get tagged with a 666 – the number of the beast…]

 

“It quickly became clear that the original bill number carried many different negative connotations,” Barton spokesman Sean Brown said in an email.”

Most proposed legislation is assigned a sequential bill number, number, without any regard for supernatural beliefs, and plenty of measures have accepted 666 as a bill number in previous Congresses.

 

But when Barton’s bill to lift restrictions on crude oil exports, his office balked. House officials agreed to change the designation from H. Res. 666 to H. Res. 702.

Source MSNBC