• XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yes, Bush was the president for most of 2008. Obama got a short portion, although the exact president in place doesn’t necessarily tell you if they agreed anyway. Since president’s don’t really write law, I was looking for the exact law to see the history of which representatives were pushing it. I wanted to see what the angle was for that piece of the bill and what else was attached to it. Nothing gets passed as an individual law, meaning it was probably a rider in a much larger group of laws that likely made it a non-negotiable requirement bundled into a more pressing matter.

    But I guess 9+ people read my simple question as total contempt for the situation.

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, though he was elected in 2008, so it’s easy to confuse.