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Cynically, we also need to ask if this is merely a feel good bill that was introduced knowing full-well the Senate was never going to pass it, much less deliber
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
Cynically, we also need to ask if this is merely a feel good bill that was introduced knowing full-well the Senate was never going to pass it, much less deliberate on it.
- whatshisface 4y agoI think every bill that doesn't get passed is like that, because most of the deliberation goes on in committees. If you look at the history of how the constitution came to exist you'd find out that it has worked like that since before Congress in its present form existed. I wouldn't be cynical about it though, because advertising a bill to an audience of legislators (and to the public through things like posting a link to it on HN) puts the ideas in people's heads and has an unquantifiable effect on making it happen in the future.
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- snowwrestler 4y agoMost bills are introduced to Congress with little expectation they will pass. The “cosponsors” tab is illuminating. Bills on track for actual consideration by a committee (the first real step) will typically have several to many cosponsors. Bills that aren’t—like this one—typically have few to zero.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> Most bills are introduced to Congress with little expectation they will pass This is in part a trial balloon. If a draft is floated and canned, and nobody hears either way about it, that says something. If a vocal minority flips out, on the other hand, that makes it a priority: you've found new group to engage.
- PopAlongKid 4y ago>the Senate was never going to pass it, much less deliberate on it. Deliberation is the easier first step, actually passing it is harder and comes later. I think the correct use of the idiom here would be "the Senate was never going to deliberate on it, much less pass it".