So they fixed it

The heck with mere rules! Rep. Don Young (R, what else?) and his staff changed the text of a law after the conference report passed both houses.

"It was an error," said Meredith Kenny, Young's spokeswoman. "It was originally supposed to say Coconut Road, so they fixed it."

Dunno, my copy of the Constitution doesn't say anything about the Chairman of the Transportation Committee having the power all by his lonesome to change the law.

What it actually says in Article I, section 1:

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Nope, no power of law unto himself.

Art. I, sect. 7 says:

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States...

Young's bill never passed; the lawfully passed bill was never presented to the President, which is not optional.

The formerly enforced Constitution also says (Art. I, sect. 5):

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

If arrogating this power is not disorderly, I have no idea what is. The only appropriate sanction for this abuse is expulsion, so a Senate investigation is useless, but there aren't enough honest Republicans left to get to two thirds, so any investigation at all is fine.

For more, see Documenting the tatters.