Congress Passes Wrong Pipeline Bill

It was a rare moment of bicameral, bipartisan compromise—and also a complete screw-up. The House and Senate hurriedly passed a pipeline safety bill on Tuesday, but not the one they thought they were passing, Politico reports. Thanks to a "clerical error," the House wound up passing an earlier version of the legislation, rather than the final compromise.

The mix-up shouldn't be a big deal. "We expect the correcting resolution to be approved in the House and Senate without issue," said the lead author on the Senate side, adding that it was the Senate that eventually noticed the mistake. Indeed, the House has already agreed by unanimous consent to correct the oversight, and the Senate is expected to do likewise before long. (More Congress stories.)