The Read the Bills Act, proposed by DownsizeDC.org, would A) force the politicians to read or listen to entire bills before passing them, would B) make government post the bills online so that citizens, news programmes, bloggers, etc. can read them, and would C) make the politicians wait seven days before voting on bills to give the public and media time to digest the potential impact of laws.
So why would ANY politician not endorse it??
Is it simply because they don't think they should be Responsible to know the content of the laws THEY pass?
Is it because they know they wouldn't be able to sneak their pork-projects into bills any longer?
Is it because they know that if the Read the Bills Act were ever to be voted on, that any politician who would vote against it would probably lose his/her next election? And that thus the law would have to pass, and they, the politicians, would now be forced to take responsibility for the laws they pass?
Or do they just hate America?
2006-08-26
14:18:24
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Alexander S. Peak
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Law & Ethics