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Courtesy of Montana Legistature State Rep. David 'Doc' Moore of Montana.

It was all a joke.

Thats the message from a Montana House representative who said he was making a wisecrack when a reporter asked about his efforts to expand a state decency law.

Yoga pants should be illegal in public anyway, Republican David Moore told an Associated Press reporter, whose story appeared in the Billings Gazette and was picked up by publications as disparate as Fox News and Jezebel.

The decency law, which was couched in language that was vague and even bizarre when it made its way into the judiciary committee, was unanimously tabled on Wednesday evening, the Gazette reported. But that didnt save Moore from a media lashing.

Theres a man in Montana imbued with more power than he should have, said Jezebels Kate Dries. It was a sentiment that echoed across the internet.

They just need to stop trying to legislate what women wear, Marian Bradley, past president of the National Organization for Women in Montana and the current north-west regional director, told the Guardian. And they need to be mindful of the fact that we are in control of what we wear.

Moores bill, while deeply flawed, would have also repealed a draconian law already on the books in Montana that provides for three-time indecent exposure offenders to be thrown in prison for life, be fined $10,000 or both. Moores bill would have reduced that penalty to five years or $5,000.

Stories on his yoga pants remark also obscured the nuanced voting history of the Montanan he is the only Republican in the state to be endorsed by the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws (Naral) and is carrying the state houses annual attempt to repeal the death penalty.

Montana has earned a reputation for meddling it was the subject of recent mockery when legislators attempted to issue a strict, one-page dress code that seemed to focus on womens necklines and skirt-lengths.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Millions of immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama's executive actions could get a windfall from the IRS, a reversal of fortune after years of paying taxes to help fund government programs they were banned from receiving.

Armed with new Social Security numbers, many of these immigrants who were living in the U.S. illegally will now be able to claim up to four years' worth of tax credits designed to benefit the working poor. For big families, that's a maximum of nearly $24,000, as long as they can document their earnings during those years.

Some Republicans are labeling the payments "amnesty bonuses," one more reason they oppose Obama's program shielding millions of immigrants from deportation.

"I represent hard working, law-biding Texans," said Rep. Sam Johnson, a senior Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. "I think these amnesty rewards, and that's what they are, need to be stopped."

Advocates argue that many of these immigrants pay taxes, so they should be able to claim the same tax credits as anybody else. Over the past decade, immigrants in the U.S. illegally have paid an estimated $100 billion in Social Security payroll taxes, even though few will ever be able to collect benefits, said Stephen Goss, Social Security's chief actuary.

Obama has issued executive orders shielding about 4 million immigrants from deportation. Some were brought to the U.S. as children; others are parents of children who are either U.S. citizens or legal residents.

Republicans in Congress oppose Obama's actions and are trying to use a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security to overturn them. Democrats are resisting, resulting in a stalemate that is threatening to shut down the department.

Funding for the department, which oversees immigration enforcement, runs out Feb. 27.

The dispute over tax credits illustrates the complicated relationship that many immigrants have with the U.S. tax system. Social Security estimates that immigrants living in the country illegally work at about the same rate as the rest of the population, even though federal law bars them from employment.

In general, they are less likely to pay federal taxes. Those who do have been boosting Social Security's finances for years.

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