How Do You Even File 540 Amendments to a Bill?

Today’s moment of sheer Jamesian confusion comes from Rep. Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) disclosure today that Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is larding the Defense Department appropriations bill with God-knows-what. From a press briefing Hoyer gave earlier:

Mr. Hoyer: …On Thursday we’ll do the Department of Defense Appropriation Act. There are, by

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