Also, before voting on any bill, each legislator should be required to sign a sworn affidavit under penalty of perjury stating that he or she has personally read the bill in its entirety.
Absolutely! The whole system has come to be nothing more than a way to hide the contents and true intent of legislation and get it enacted.
I don’t see any solution on the horizon. The Contract with America was an encouraging start, but once the 100 days had gone by the new majority started to taste the fruits of power and it was downhill from there.