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For pieces that were added as amendments, it is at least possible to determine who proposed the amendment. Instances where the as-written initial bill is writte
by ElevenLathe 4y ago
For pieces that were added as amendments, it is at least possible to determine who proposed the amendment. Instances where the as-written initial bill is written on K Street will probably always be impossible unless Congress pass absurdly strict sunlight laws with teeth (i.e. make it illegal for congresspeople to have substantive meetings without livestreaming them) that inconvenience themselves.
- clairity 4y agoyah, for that, we'd need complete social graphs for public servants, which would quickly run afoul the congressional staffs' civil liberties, because they'd try to hide as much as possible behind other people. you'd need that to appropriately apportion attributions back to the public servant. i'd be ok pushing for a legal carve-out for this social graph however, as i'd posit that greater governmental transparency overrides the potential encroachments of the ~tens/hundreds of thousands of partisans and lobbyists (<0.1% of population; though slippery slope could be invoked here). you'd start with staffers and move out to anyone paid directly by the office and their affiliated political organizations, then move to large donors and their PACs. obviously the current supreme court would try to block this as an antecedent to the citizen's united case.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoOh yeah it would definitely be in the interests of the ruled class. Unfortunately, since it is bad for the ruling class, we won't get it.