[aeonspromise]

If they are signing bills that they have not read, they are incompetent and should be fired..sounds like the same mentality that gave loans to folks who could not pay..
I do not trust them to represent the people of The United States..

[Doc Savage]

Perhaps Euthanasia of Congress is the way to go!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

How about a size limit on bills? Anything too big to easily grasp is dangerous!

[library user]

Is there anyway that I - an ordinary U.S. citizen - can get a .gov web address? I tried GoDaddy and didn’t see it as an option. Apparently you have to be a native Kenyan to qualify.

[KarlInOhio]

What is the legislative history of that $18 million line item? Let me guess, it was put in there by some anonymous committee staffer at some time no one can quite remember.

It is long past time for all bills to have the electronic version as the official one, so no one can add handwritten sections to the bills. Every paragraph, sentence, word and punctuation mark must be tracked to see who added, removed or changed it with the associated record of voting attached to each change. All changes should be tied to an individual representative or senator who made the change with no more unsupervised changes by Congressional staffers. Then keep that change history continually updated and publicly disclosed on the web (after all, the electronic copy is the official one so there will be no need to scan and run OCR on the official paper copy to see what is going on). It should be less than a second after a change is made before the people can read it.

You would still have problems with strawmen amendments where Rep. A puts in a change to benefit Rep. B to keep Rep. B's fingerprints off of it, but that would still be better than the current situation where the legislation fairy drops in a change at 3 AM.

< /my rant about secret, anonymous changes to bills>

[raybbr]

Hey, Jim,

All you gotta do is get in the pocket of a congressman and you won’t have to do the “freepathons” anymore. /s

[missnry]

On Tuesday he laughed at the suggestion that he read things before he voted on them. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,”

CONGRESS IS OUT OF CONTROL!!

[domeika]

First off, aren't they guilty of some kind of dereliction for not reading legislation before voting on it? That is part of the job is it not? Secondly, as another poster pointed out, where is the tracking on this stuff? Things get thrown in by "satff members", but they don't know who, but hey it's no big deal right?

B.S. --- They are throwing around, away, and who knows where else OUR MONEY, in amounts that boggle the mind, and telling us not to worry about it. Why are THEY not held to the same standard that they demand of corporations? If they had to comply with "Sarbanes Oxley" (which I don't like in any way) themselves, it would be a different ball game.

[Travis McGee]

This reminds me of the late Roman Empire, when Caligula put horses in the senate.

Horses could do no worse today.

[big'ol_freeper]

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[autumnraine]

Our government has elevated to the level of corruption which is what made us start a new country in the first place.