Here's a great idea for a bill
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Here's a great idea for a bill
Make up a bill. Any bill.
One party writes out a typical political bill that goes for about 500 pages. In the middle of the bill, the party puts a statement that says something like "any congressional member from the other party that votes yes for this bill gets huge perks and various other goodies"
How much ya wanna bet that nobody from the other party would get those perks--because they will never read the bill due to it being from the other side of the aisle.
This will indicate how political everything really is in the country.
They either won't read it because it's from the other guys or they won't read it because it's just way too much to read...
One party writes out a typical political bill that goes for about 500 pages. In the middle of the bill, the party puts a statement that says something like "any congressional member from the other party that votes yes for this bill gets huge perks and various other goodies"
How much ya wanna bet that nobody from the other party would get those perks--because they will never read the bill due to it being from the other side of the aisle.
This will indicate how political everything really is in the country.
They either won't read it because it's from the other guys or they won't read it because it's just way too much to read...
TheNextPrez2012
Re: Here's a great idea for a bill
It is obvious that you do not know how things actually work on the Hill.
Having actually worked there pushing legislation through the machine, let me fill you in on the process and why your observation is wrong.
What you don't know is that no one in congress or the senate actually reads the bills that come before them (with few exceptions), they have staff members for those things. And they have staff that actually specialize in certain areas.
Any such language as you suggest above would be found by staffers and brought to the attention of their bosses without question.
And a 500 page bill hardly qualifies as "too much" to read. I'd reserve that classification for things like Obamacare, which came in at some 2,700 pages, or Dodd-Frank, which was close to that size.
Finally, there is NO WAY that a bill written by, let's say a Democrat, would go unread and unanalyzed by Republicans. That just doesn't happen. Even Obamacare, which NO ONE in Congress read, was analyzed by staffers so that talking points could be drafted for and against it by both parties.
Having actually worked there pushing legislation through the machine, let me fill you in on the process and why your observation is wrong.
What you don't know is that no one in congress or the senate actually reads the bills that come before them (with few exceptions), they have staff members for those things. And they have staff that actually specialize in certain areas.
Any such language as you suggest above would be found by staffers and brought to the attention of their bosses without question.
And a 500 page bill hardly qualifies as "too much" to read. I'd reserve that classification for things like Obamacare, which came in at some 2,700 pages, or Dodd-Frank, which was close to that size.
Finally, there is NO WAY that a bill written by, let's say a Democrat, would go unread and unanalyzed by Republicans. That just doesn't happen. Even Obamacare, which NO ONE in Congress read, was analyzed by staffers so that talking points could be drafted for and against it by both parties.
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