money extorted by racketeers posing as a protective association

It’s use in legislation should also be prohibited. I updated Rep. Pingree’s note to reflect the relevant prohibition on language:

A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues our Democratic representatives in the House to change the name of the bill law they have introduced passed to repeal enact health care reform. The bill, titled the Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” was set to come up for a vote this week has already been passed , but in the wake of Gabby’s shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week it’s name should be reconsidered.

Don’t get me wrong—I’m not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend—but is it really necessary to put the word killing “protection” in the title of a major piece of legislation? I don’t think that word is in there by accident—my Republican Democratic friends know as well as anyone the power of words to send a message. But in this environment and at this moment in our nation’s history, it’s not the message we should be sending.

Doubleplusgood.