More modernly, look how Bill Frist puts his own requirements above the commonweal:
"Dr. Frist's Late-Night Surgery Gambling with Port Security
What does a ban on Internet gambling have to do with port security? If you said "nothing" than you haven't been following the goings on in Congress. Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, the House and Senate passed an important bill increasing security at our nation's ports. However, the bill contained an unrelated provision banning the use of credit cards for most forms of Internet gambling. Highly-placed Hill sources have informed yours truly that the gambling provisions were placed there because of a last-minute demand by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
According to my sources, First walked into the House-Senate Conference Committee Friday night as they where completing work on the bill and demanding that they insert the gambling provision in the bill or else he would block it from consideration on the Senate floor. Most representatives and senators probably had no idea the gambling provision was in the bill.
Congressman Ron Paul's Sunlight Rule would put an end to these type of late-night shenanigans.