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> How do you define "a single topic"? The original bill. As in, no riders at all.
by mhurron 11y ago
> How do you define "a single topic"?
The original bill. As in, no riders at all.
- brianwawok 11y agoBut does that change anything? "Party X votes no in favor of bill Z, but we will vote again if you introduce bill Y which is the exact same as bill Z except with a new section funding for building a shipyard in the congressional district of a popular guy in Party X"
- dragonwriter 11y agoSo, you'd prohibit all amendments, but allow unlimited mixing of unrelated subjects as long as they were incorporated in the original bill as proposed, so instead of adding riders to existing bills, politicians would let one measure die, and introduce a new one with the all the various mix of subjects (including the central focus of the old one) that would have been in the first measure with added riders. Aside from moving part of the action from formal amendment processes to informal processes, I don't see what change that gets you.