Yes, I definitely agree that as a procedural rule, anything that can become law should be posted for a good period of time (with all sorts of exceptions for eme

Yes, I definitely agree that as a procedural rule, anything that can become law should be posted for a good period of time (with all sorts of exceptions for emergencies... e.g. funding to help a disaster area). I think the necessary action is some sort of education program (yeah, yeah, it'll never happen, I know...). If we can somehow educate people to never get mad at a fact (a quote from a political science textbook I read once) then we might be able to do this. In any event, I think this sort of education is necessary because as things stand, reports are often treated as opinions, which is bad. Edit: Slightly OT, but I would love to see a law that requires every scientific paper that used public funding be posted online, for free, within a year of dead tree publication. Its a interesting idea, but we'd need to find a way to compensate journals. I think they get boatloads of money from academic institutions paying for access to their publications (correct me if I'm wrong).