> Real time access to laws as they are drafted is a Really Bad Idea. Good ideas need time to incubate. Good point, but if they used a distributed version contr

> Real time access to laws as they are drafted is a Really Bad Idea. Good ideas need time to incubate. Good point, but if they used a distributed version control system, lawmakers could have any number of private repositories on which to craft laws before they're merged to the public master repo. (I wouldn't expect lawmakers themselves to use git, of course; their staff would do this for them.)