Congressman Demands Number Change For Bill Labeled “666”

It is the class 2015 , and there are still masses , admit elected official , who ca n’t hang with the figure 666 . Because of Satan .

The Hillreports :

Rep. Joe Barton ( Texas ) is n’t about to have his prized legislation get tagged with a 666 — the number of the animate being .

Barton on Wednesday successfully changed the bill bit for his statute law repealing a decades - old forbiddance on crude oil exports from 666 , a figure oft tie to the antichrist and Satanism , to the more analgesic 702 .

“ It quick became clear that the original bill number carried many unlike disconfirming connotation , ” Barton spokesman Sean Brown enunciate in an email . “ We decided it was best to change it so multitude will pore on the content of the legislation , not the bill number . ”

The figure 666 has been arrogate to Congressional bills in the past , with no apparent demonic radioactive dust :

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H. Res . 666 in the 112th Congress expressed the House ’s sensation that Medicare should not be transfer for any citizen over the age of 55 . In the 113th Congress , H.R. 666 reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trustfulness for Native American tribe .

But this is n’t the first time 666 has made headlines by forcing itself on some innocent believer in superstition . Avid watchers of Satanic headlines will remember the gamy schooling crossing - country runnerwho refuse to enter in a 2013 racebecause she was assigned approximate which number .

Yep . Seems like an apt moment to just leave … this … here …

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