Without much fanfare, President Joe Biden signed 50 bills into law on his last Christmas Eve in the Oval Office – ranging from establishing the first federal anti-hazing college campus standard, to making the Bald Eagle the country’s first official bird, to preventing federal agencies from issuing “useless reports” (by who’s standard?).
The bills also named federal buildings and post offices, a law to hold youth treatment and care centers more accountable, and a law which precludes members of Congress from collecting pensions if convicted of crimes.
The Epoch Times has more detail on some of the bills:
SB 4610 designates the bald eagle as the national bird, clearing up what has been assumed but not codified for nearly 250 years.
The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Markwayne Mullen (R-Okla.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.), was passed by the Senate in July and by the House Dec. 16.
It states “bald eagles are a historical symbol of the United States representing independence, strength, and freedom; the bald eagle is unique to North America; the bald eagle image remains the leading insignia for all branches of the United States military.”
It notes that on June 20,