US Congress bans word 'lunatic' in federal legislation

[bananas]

Source: BBC

The sharply divided US Congress has been able to agree on one thing at least - that the word "lunatic" should be banned.

The House of Representatives voted 398-1 on Wednesday to strike the term from all federal legislation, after the Senate did the same in May.

The measure is designed to remove language that has become outdated or demeaning from the US code.

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The word still appears in some parts of federal law - a section of financial regulation, for example, addresses the power of a bank to act as a "committee of estates of lunatics".

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20628988

[FSogol]

1. PS. Lunatic was replaced in the US Code with the term "Republicans."

[awoke_in_2003]

8. ...

[cstanleytech]

11. I was thinking the same thing :)

[lalalu]

2. Reminds me of the movie 'King of Hearts"

Only members of congress are more deranged and mean than the characters in the movie.

[doc03]

3. What they need to do is ban the lunnatics from the Congress n/t

[Archae]

4. You know who the one voting against this was?

None other than...

Gomer.

Louie Gohmert.

The lunatic from Texas.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Oh irony of ironies.

Maybe he is trying to 'take back' the term for his demographic.

[Iggy]

5. OUR Congress = Lunacy at it's Worst

They can ban words in their phony documents all they want-- I am calling them lunatics.

[madinmaryland]

6. And Senator Demint resigns from the Senate shortly thereafter.

[lastlib]

9. "But it just might be a lunatic you're lookin' for."....

"You may be right, I may be crazy."

[Odin2005]

10. Good, now we can use that label for Republicans.

[Nihil]

12. Oh dear ...

... I really don't want to think what effect that is going to have in Meta ...

[dipsydoodle]

13. Full on turbo nutters

might better suit on occasions.