hey...what congressman in his right mind would agree to this. It might actually mean investing some time in thier job.
A sign of where the country is at today. It is not sad...it’s an OUTRAGE we’ve come to this.
And this proves that 0 is only the tip of the iceberg. A total overhaul is in order.
He’s being a little disingenuous here. The senate is required to read all bills before they are voted on but this is frequently waived by unanimous consent.
All it would take is for one senator to sit in his seat all day and deny unanimous consent requests and then compel a quorum to listen to it being read.
This can be done by any one senator, but nobody has the balls to do it. They don’t want to legislate. They want to swing in, vote and swing back out to do whatever.
Satire, people. This ain’t real.
Pelosi was interviewed on this by NPR:
“This bill is completely unfair. Some members of congress have dyslexia or other processing disorders. It’s typical of Republicans to assume everyone is the same. We respect all differences here and don’t want to push the entire House to read thousands of pages unless it’s actual law of the land. “
What’s wrong with the Pelosi technique? “We have to pass this bill to find out what’s in it.”
Is this the same as reading only the headline on Free Republic, and then commenting on it?
Dimmit, you almost got me again— right up to the “Reid” quote.
Although I agree, how will they ensure it has been read? A quiz? Also, the congresscriter would then be responsible for the content of the bill, since they had time to read it. I don’t see it being a bill of any substance.
Truthfully, excepting war resolutions and a few other things, what Paul should push for are “timetable” demands, that there be a fixed schedule of votes throughout the two year term of a given congress, with deadlines for committees to submit budgets, spaced so that congressmen and their staffs have enough time to read bills if they want to. With buffer time between budget bills for non-budget bills.
And because some of the committees are “sluggish”, include a penalty that if a House committee is late with its submission, that neither the House bill being voted on the floor, nor in conference committee with the senate, will include *any* non-related riders or pork.
Likewise, that any continuing budget resolution automatically lose any pork attached to the previous budget, so just doing a continuing resolution, as Harry Reid has done for four years, will automatically result in slashing that previous budget.