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Both sides have teams of people to go over and work on these bills. This "pass it without reading it" crap just shows how little these people understand the process of our government.
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Personally I think that any bill should be hand written by the person sponsoring the bill.That way they can't say they didn't know what was in the bill they sponsored. And it would really limit the amount of legislation that got passed.
Good thinking!
Passing a bill without reading it
There should be legislation requiring a bill be read and reviewed before being passed and when anyone can prove that the yes voter did not study the bill he should be immediately fired/executed(hah) by his constituents!
Both sides have teams of people to go over and work on these bills. This "pass it without reading it" crap just shows how little these people understand the process of our government.
I must disagree with you about this one. Every Congress person has a staff that is supposed to do what you say but with the limited amount of time that they had for Obamacare and the Stimulus Law and the number of pages there wasn't time for them to even scan them. Nasty Nancy said that they would have to pass that abortion of a health care bill and thereby said she didn't know much of what was in it.
Nope, all those bills are supposed to be considered or written by committees and then debated on the floor. These rules have not been followed too many times lately, especially the debating part. i wonder if you really know just how this is supposed to be done.
There should be legislation requiring a bill be read and reviewed before being passed and when anyone can prove that the yes voter did not study the bill he should be immediately fired/executed(hah) by his constituents!
With your rules we would need about 535 new Congress persons just for the Affordable Care Act. But I sure do agree with you.
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Wow great idea!
