Two people just make up the laws - no votes required

Just another outrage in the long string of outrages from the Rethuglican dictators.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert engineered a backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits, say witnesses to the pre-Christmas power play.

The language was tucked into a Defense Department appropriations bill at the last minute without the approval of members of a House-Senate conference committee, say several witnesses, including a top Republican staff member.

Frankly, I don't even understand how language that hasn't been voted upon can legally end up in any bill just because the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader stick it there. Can someone with some legal smarts explain that to me? Why couldn't we just take this to a court, prove that the language was not voted upon by anyone, and have that part of the bill expunged?