The latest & greatest acomplishment of the U.S. Senate is...

Today, the U.S. Senate finally passed a budgetentitlement reformtax reform a bill striking the word "lunatic" from federal law.

This is certainly one of those remember-where-you-were moments:

The Senate on Wednesday quickly approved legislation that would remove the word "lunatic" everywhere it appears in the federal code.

The Senate approved S. 2367 by unanimous consent, giving the House a chance to act if it wishes, although no House member has introduced a similar bill.

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) introduced the bill back in late April with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). Conrad said the bill was the result of a conversation with a constituent, who said current law casts a stigma on people with mental disabilities. "Sen. Crapo and I agree that federal law should reflect the 21st-century understanding of mental illness and disease, and that the continued use of this pejorative term has no place in the U.S. Code," Conrad said in April.

I wrote about this bill back in April with similar snarkiness.  Click here to read that post.