No longer 'just a bill on Capitol Hill', 'anti-terror' law

[mburbank]

"It's most certainly hysterics, and it is, after all about a bill on Capitol Hill. We weren't a step away from dictatorship two weeks ago, were we? What triggered all of the Third Reich talk? A bill."
-Kevin the Omniscient

While I still don't think we're 'a step away' from dictatorship, I guess I'd say we were at very least a step closer. I'm just wondering if you think that now it's a law and not a bill, if that made any difference.