Of course Congress should be allowed to amend bills. Since Congress writes most bills of course they can amend them, if not directly then indirectly by scrappin

Of course Congress should be allowed to amend bills. Since Congress writes most bills of course they can amend them, if not directly then indirectly by scrapping one bill and introducing another, almost identical bill with the amendments. No amount of process-tweaking is going to make any difference if Americans keep electing stupid assholes to public office. Likewise, even a rather broken set of processes can be mitigated if they're administered by intelligent and reasonable people. (Now, for my pet idea :) What I would like to see, in addition to an electorate that doesn't make such terrible decisions, is a requirement that every bill have a falsifiable statement of purpose, along with clear and convincing reasoning why the proposed legislation might achieve that purpose. The purpose would always include some time limit. If the purpose of the bill is not achieved by the time the limit is up, then the bill is automatically repealed. If the courts (or some new institution analogous to the courts) determines the the reasoning is not clear, or the time limit is not reasonable (e.g. a million years to do X) then the bill is also repealed. But even that's going to break down, if administered by idiots.