It has NOTHING to do with infrastructure.
Quietly tucking unrelated laws into bills just to get unpopular stuff passed through is why people hate DC politicians.
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There are (or used to be) house rules against non germain amendments. The senate allows them. Then they have to go to a conference cmte to decide and then both houses have to pass the conference report. Unless the rules cmte allows this then any member can object.
These new members should become familiar with H.R. Gross who by using the house rules and precedents stopped a lot of hanky panky.