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It's easy to think this will be only bad things, but currently we have volumes of legislation being dropped at the 11th hour and kneejerk judgements on whether
by lagniappe 4y ago
It's easy to think this will be only bad things, but currently we have volumes of legislation being dropped at the 11th hour and kneejerk judgements on whether to sign it or delegate "the good parts" to understudies and interns to review. If this gets legislators to get a good summary, it won't fix the system but does fix the problem for now.
- jerf 4y agoTo be honest, it basically can't make the current situation significantly worse. DC has already solved the problem of how to pass extremely large amounts of legislation with no accountability (who wrote this line?) and no ability for any individual human, most notably including the people nominally voting on the bill, to possibly have read the entire bill even at a skimming speed, let alone comprehend and understand the possible implications. I don't mean this as a cynical crack, either. It's literally true. The spending omnibusses and such are often passed at speeds where it is only borderline physically possible for a legislator to have skimmed the bills, and certainly utterly impossible for them to understand what is in it. DC doesn't need help on that front.