Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Even so, the guy's brother (if that's who he is) wasn't going to change things much either way. This is too big to have gone down because some senior boomer called up his brother in congress and asked for a couple more years on the job. I wouldn't strictly rule out that some tiny pork provision could get into some big bill because of somebody's brother but this one is too public with way too many ramifications for that.
True, that would be implausible. “Captain Nehls”, kicking around down on the TX ranch with his bro the former sheriff (now congressman) might have mentioned it once or twice….just maybe, and definitely only “in passing”…

But it’s mainly guys like
these…….and their ten buddies, and their ten buddies, and their ten buddies, and so on ad infinitem….