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This is how bad it is folks, we need a law to force them to read the laws they enact.
Although such a law wont help the dolts understand what they are voting on nor ensure that they read the bills at all, it will slow the works down.
After blasting the Senate last week for passing a 600-page bill no one had time to read, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation that would force the Senate to give its members one day to read bills for every 20 pages they contain.
"For goodness sakes, this is a 600-page bill. I got it this morning," Paul said Friday, just before the Senate approved a massive bill extending highway funding, federal flood insurance and low student loans rates.
Yeah pretty sad. I think he proposed or co-sponsored something similar before.
Frankly, these long bills nobody reads should be illegal and we should personally know by name who writes the bills.
Thank you!!! And he should add that the party responsible for the bill can't refuse to show it to the other side, and that no one will ever again say, "You have to vote on it to see what's in it".
He's fighting the BAU. Good for him but there's no enough of his type in Congress.
Really sad that they have to pass a law requiring bills be read before they are passed.
I wonder if anyone will read his bill about reading bills .....
I betcha Pelosi won't ! She doesn't read them until after they are passed.
Rand Paul is the a-hole who tried to hold up funding to make sure Federal flood insurance can payout on claims b/c he wanted the bill to include a personhood amendment.
Rand Paul is the a-hole who tried to hold up funding to make sure Federal flood insurance can payout on claims b/c he wanted the bill to include a personhood amendment.
shouldnt reps get time to read them bills before voting?
This is how bad it is folks, we need a law to force them to read the laws they enact.
Although such a law wont help the dolts understand what they are voting on nor ensure that they read the bills at all, it will slow the works down.
These long huge bills are disgusting. We all know they dont read them, they know they dont read them. They admit they dont read them yet vote yes for them anyways.
You know what happens when you get huge bills like that? You get crap that is as screwed up as our tax code.
Now....next up... introduce a bill to force single item bills...
So... you have simplified bills and language that have to be read!!... Great transparency.
This was proposed previously or something similar. However, since "anonymous" lawyers get to write these twisted things and hide all kind of unrelated strangeness I think it will be difficult to get any such thing passed. We might actually get something resembling a "real" govt then.
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