If Mr Obama's proposals survive the congressional sausage machine, America and Europe could end up with similar approaches to the hacking plague.

如果奥巴马的提议可获得国会的通过，那么美国和欧洲将采用类似的策略来应对黑客的纷扰。

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So while there will be big bills, there will not be nearly as many of them - and some may be scrutinised in draft, and fed into the parliamentary sausage machine a year later.

BBC: The year ahead in Parliament

This kind of scrutiny hearing is intended to allow problems to be teased out of legislation and improvements to be suggested, in a relatively non-partisan environment, before it's fed into the parliamentary sausage machine.

BBC: Week ahead in committees

It is hard not to think that anyone who writes more books (70-plus) than many people have read, as well as numberless articles and essays, must be at the controls of a sausage machine, yet the sausages were usually good.

ECONOMIST: Martin Gardner