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We need more {insert professional specialty} in Congress. Putting lawyers in charge of everything is like using MBAs to directly manage technical projects.

• Chlorus 11y ago
  Those damn lawyers! It's almost as if Congress' job involves laws, or something!
  • sdjjehjebeb 11y ago
    The only real job for Congress us fund raising, since that's what they do with the plurality of their time. Essentially their job is prostitution.
  • dublinben 11y ago
    Members of Congress don't even write the laws though. They have legislative aides who actually do the writing, when they're not just introducing model legislation written by special interest groups.
• chatmasta 11y ago
  Lack of expertise among lawmakers was the problem that Federal Agencies were designed to solve. For example, since congress is not filled with MD PhD's, they can't regulate healthcare from any kind of informed perspective. So they delegate lawmaking to the "regulations" produced by the FDA. Perhaps what we need is a federal agency in charge of producing "regulations" for complex computer topics. Presumably that's the mandate of the FCC, or the NIST, but maybe there is room for another, more security focused agency. Of course my personal belief is that regulation is the absolute last thing we need... but I'll take short-lived, sane regulation from a federal agency over long-lived draconian laws from congress.
  • ethbro 11y ago
    The problem is that regulation, whatever your opinions as to its necessity, is going to occur to some extent. There's too much at stake (financially and power wise) for it not to. And Congress absolutely has the ability (if not the requirement) to regulate at a specific level directly through laws. This obviously becomes a problem when there aren't enough engineers in Congress who say "I'm sure that looks nice from a political perspective, but research results / past data / basic physics says otherwise..."