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Many elected leaders on both sides have made significant campaign promises without trying to keep them. Even Obama once talked about not renewing the Patriot

• mjevans 1y ago
  They could start with a bill that requires any politically charged bill title to be renamed to something boring, yet truthful and still relatively concise instead. It's really difficult to 'vote against patriot...' it's a lot less difficult to not vote for the 'spy on Americans, everyone is a potential terrorist' act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act Though there are some general ideas within that wide-reaching legislation that deserve a review and carefully constructed process, rather than a slip-shod 'fix it fix it fix it' now knee jerk law.
  • dragonwriter 1y ago
    > They could start with a bill that requires any politically charged bill title to be renamed to something boring, yet truthful and still relatively concise instead. Well, even if it wasn’t Constitutiionally impossible for Congress to bind itself in the future this way, it would be impossible to enforce such a subjective rule. (And e en if you could enforce such a rule on formal names, it wouldn't stop informal names with emotional appeal from being popularly used, regardless of the formal name.)
  • BobbyTables2 1y ago
    The sad thing is nobody has to vote against it… They could simply play golf that day or meet with their constituents.