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Lobbyists cost money. One full time person plus expenses could easily cost $200k. If they employ any lawyers to review draft legislation, it'll be more.

I'm surprised it isn't a lot more.

The seal requires they act outside the confessional as if they never received the information. Anything else could make apparent to others what happened in the confession through context and clues.

More specifically, Washington State (and most other states) have mandated reporter laws regarding child abuse. If your profession is on the list, you are a mandated reporter. Construction workers are an example of people not mandated reporters. If they suspect abuse they should say something but aren't legally mandated. Teachers, nurses, and clergy are examples of mandated reporters. They have to say something. The carve out is if the priest learns the information during a sacramental confession. Outside of the confessional, he still reports. But because people stop going to confession when priests don't have the seal of the confessional, churches maintain that requirement. Child abusers aren't going to confess to someone who will report that confession to the government so it isn't like this law was going to stop any abuse. In fact, more abuse might happen when perverts have no one to turn to when they need someone to deal with their messed up psychology.

There's a great Hitchcock movie about murder and confession and a priest who cannot protect his own name because of the seal of the confessional. I highly recommend watching:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Confess_(film)

The seal of the confessional is so strict that if a man confessed putting poison in the communion wine before Mass, after leaving the confessional the priest could not act on that information, even if it meant drinking the wine at Mass and dying.

I've seen their videos. I feel bad for the kids. Not the wife. She's there with him for the same stupid reasons. The kids are obviously suffering, especially the oldest.

It makes sense for Canada to preserve its steel industry, economics aside.

I get told that whenever I run into people from high school, unless I've got my beard. My beard is gray enough to show my age.

That pavement represents a lot of government subsidies. Big highway doesn't exist without big government.

Did they need to be told?

We should entertain the idea that this is the effect, not the cause, of the problem. That we have cause and effect in reverse.

It can also remove requirements for property owners to carry flood insurance.

That's why they did it. A bank was probably going to require it as a loan requirement and the cost of flood insurance for them was likely going to be significant.

I have a friend who did the same thing except his was a single workshop. Going forward, I do not see FEMA authoring these map rewrite requests.