S. 5123 scored 72/100 on Quorum's complexity scale. The score measures how hard the text makes it to see what the bill does.
S. 5123 · complexity 72/100
The bill carries a complexity score of 72/100 and a high warning level. Transparency: 30%.
No discrete riders were detected, but the bill carries hidden implications. One example: The bill's extreme technical complexity—12 separate redesignation and renumbering operations affecting 50+ sections of title 36—appears designed to obscure a simple amendment. This pattern may signal legislative obfuscation as a deliberate tactic, raising questions about why straightforward commemorative legislation requires such baroque procedural machinery.
Quorum's analysis did not identify a specific financial beneficiary class.
The bill's extreme technical complexity—12 separate redesignation and renumbering operations affecting 50+ sections of title 36—appears designed to obscure a simple amendment. This pattern may signal legislative obfuscation as a deliberate tactic, raising questions about why straightforward commemorative legislation requires such baroque procedural machinery.
Who is behind it
Filed by Tim Sheehy. Cosponsored by Jerry Moran, Maria Cantwell and Mark Kelly.
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