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On the floor, with a majority present.
by ursuscamp 3y ago
On the floor, with a majority present.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoNothing you do can keep the majority awake. Budget bills in particular can get really tedious. And any bill that, say, strikes or adds a word to already extant law, would require reading the entirety of the law so changed.
- lockhouse 3y agoI don’t care if they stay awake, I want to end omnibus Bible sized bills full of pork and erosions of our rights being put in bills that would otherwise be in the interests of the people. Forcing them the discomfort of having to read it out loud all by themselves should help greatly with that. I’m looking at you former speaker of the house that said we have to pass the bill to know what’s in it.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoThis will incentive Congress to delegate more than they do now. Instead of line items for each major expense in a budget bill, they'll just assign X billions of dollars to Y agency to parcel out as the agency director wishes.
- lockhouse 3y agoYes and that will reduce pork by no longer mandating the Army to buy a specific number of tanks that are built in an important Congressman’s district when they really need money to fix a barracks.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoYou'd hope so, but this will probably be covered by only appointing people willing to delve out pork as directors of the agencies.