Congress Literally Passed The Wrong Bill Last Night

When it comes to metaphors for the inability for Congress to function properly, I don't think you could come up with one better than this:

Due to human error, the House on Monday and Senate on Tuesday both passed a pipeline safety bill all right, but an earlier version of the bill — not the final bipartisan, bicameral compromise.“There was a House clerical error and we expect the correcting resolution to be approved in the House and Senate without issue,” said Caley Gray, a spokesman for Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who was a lead author of Senate pipeline safety legislation this year. The Senate was the one that discovered the error, Gray added.

Somehow both bodies rose above their usual stubbornness, and yet only achieved incompetence.