Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: State Legislatures and ALEC (HBO)

"State legislatures are hilarious." John Oliver talks about state legislatures and the passing of a lot of bills partly in thanks to a group called ALEC that writes legislation for them. John also states in the viralling vid: "So far, congress has just passed 185 laws, state legislation has passed more than 24,000 bills!" Something sounds 'fishy'...