Posted on 09/30/2009 9:09:54 AM PDT by BAW
Who would pay for it? That would be a huge undertaking because you can’t just throw the word perfect copy on the web...it would have to PDF at least. Sometimes people are just not reasonable or have any realistic understanding of life in the real world.
The other 17% are the unions, Congress, Senate and the administration...
Someday, Americans are going to take their government back. I think that process has already begun. That’s a good thing.
How awful!
Can you imagine the ignorant, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing hoi-poloi actually looking over the shoulders of their SERVANTS, the Congress, as the Congress considers new ways to “harass the people and eat out their substance” and constrain their liberties?
How presumptious of those ignorant peasants!
By the way, we should INSIST that these bills be written in PLAIN LANGUAGE that is easily understood.
Like our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution!
Sounds to me as if it could be a part on a new “Contract For America.”
Any member of Congress that claims not read or understand a bill before voting on it doesn’t deserve the office. Making the bill public will give the people added power to hold their members of Congress accountable.
All the material is posted already, in other words, we are already paying for it. It comes in plaintext, for the most pat, but also pdf (See Congressional record - all bills are published).
The only difference under discussion here is timing. Should the text be available to the public before the body votes on the language? It is typical for "hot" topics, to have the text available to the public, the day AFTER the vote is taken.
If it would impede their ability to push through bad legislation, I’m all for it. If they can’t figure out how to convert to pdf, too bad.
Let's say it cost a million dollars to publish it on the web.
Let's say the proposal is for $1.3 TRILLION.
I'll put up a buck, and I'l give 10:1 odds I can get a million more by Monday!
I love the Democratic excuses: y’all wouldn’t understand the bills
even if you read them.
HOW THE H-LL would the Senators/Reps. know?
They don’t read the bills themselves!!!!!
I’d be happy with a “10 Minutes per Page” standard.
Listening to limbaugh, we are screwed. There is nothing we can do. They are going to pass this healthcare stuff through an amendment and the public won’t even know about it
Bills are all ready available on http://thomas.loc.gov/
Congress just needs to put them up in time.
“Who would pay for it? That would be a huge undertaking because you can’t just throw the word perfect copy on the web...it would have to PDF at least.”
This is not a problem.
re: By the way, we should INSIST that these bills be written in PLAIN LANGUAGE that is easily understood.
Amen! In addition to the actual language of the bill there should be a simple explanation of the intention of bill.
And then I come to my senses and I hear a far away voice saying, “Dream on!”
If they want exceptions for emergencies, the emergency bill should expire in 5 days while they pass the non-emergency version.
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