mine was a gift too, and here in Brazil the flashcards its like 70 us$, and i'm sorry if i'm not rich but thats is a lot of money for me...
of couse that i want to buy a new flashcard, but when you have to pay the bills...
The problem with X party blocked X bill that would have prevented X is that yes the bill probably would have worked great, buuuttt they put XYZDCBG in said bill as an attempt to sneak things in that tend to be completely unrelated to the original bills intent. It sucks because if they would just do a single thing they could probably get something done...