Posted on 05/19/2012 6:42:51 AM PDT by bray
Much of what you described is done behind the scenes by the “Hill Rats”, congressional aides, who work with “the Beltway Bandits”, consultants and lawyers, and yes, lobbyists, to create the actual text of laws.
Congressmen and senators make it clear to their Hill Rats what they want, and leave it up to the Hill Rats to do it. And while the Hill Rats regularly insert goodies into such bills for their friends, if they get too rude about it they will get fired.
So yes, congress knew pretty much what it was going to get before they signed it, without having read the text. Neglected in this is that, while Romneycare was cited as the founding idea behind Obamacare, nobody remembers that Hillary had assembled a huge team to make Hillarycare, and they did so. This was not forgotten either, in the run up to Obamacare, and a lot of cutting and pasting was done.
Nice.
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