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To: CitizenUSA

Enough with the amendments. Stand-alone bills only. And simple majority for most votes.

Amendments take away our representatives’ ability to vote their conscience, and therefore ours too. In addition, they complicate the process with trade-offs so that half the time we don’t even know what’s happening. Back to basics.

The first person to campaign on this gets my vote, even if it’s Bernie.


22 posted on 07/29/2015 2:42:50 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand
The first person to campaign on this gets my vote, even if it’s Bernie.

I don't think that's a winning issue. Since each chamber of Congress makes its own rules, a President can't do anything about it. And if someone like Sanders loses, there is not much they alone can do in the Senate to change the rules.

It would likely take an Article V convention of the states to pass an amendment to force single issue bills from Congress.

-PJ

31 posted on 07/29/2015 4:07:03 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: firebrand

simple is always better ...


33 posted on 07/29/2015 4:17:21 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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