We should be demanding that modern revision control tools are put in place everywhere they're appropriate. This case is a poster child for it, but even more so

We should be demanding that modern revision control tools are put in place everywhere they're appropriate. This case is a poster child for it, but even more so it should be standard in the legislative process to have commit authors and changelogs. Every citizen should have ridiculously easy access to the current laws and regulations they are bound by, along with who wrote those laws and who lobbied/campaign funded them to write those laws. This is especially true given the fact that ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it.