GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky blasted the process that Republicans in the upper chamber used while crafting their Obamacare repeal legislation Wednesday, reintroducing a resolution aimed at preventing lawmakers from rushing through legislation.
The Read the Bills Resolution would require legislation, resolutions, amendments and conference reports to be filed for one day for every 20 pages before they can be taken up. The measure includes a provision allowing lawmakers to act in the case of emergencies.
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While this proposed legislation sounds good in theory, it is doomed to fail. The fact that a bill is needed to require legislators to actually read the bills they are voting on speaks volumes about our current condition. Our elected officials act as if the only, sole and exclusive obligation they are required to perform is to ensure their re-election which part of making/stealing as much money as they can. Everything else is deemed as optional, including the oath of office. Since their world view is that the rules do not apply to us, the elite, I consider it very unlikely that they will comply with a requirement to read the bills they are voting on. It would place an undue burden on our elected thieves, ah, officials, as it would interfere with their other "duties" of running for re-election, fund raising, fact finding missions (at taxpayer expense) and going on vacations to spend time with all those celebrities and other trendy people
ReplyDelete. The fact that a bill is needed to require legislators to actually read the bills they are voting on speaks volumes about our current condition. Our elected officials act as if the only, sole and exclusive obligation they are required to perform is to ensure their re-election which part of making/stealing as much money as they can
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In 2016 Trump said he doubted most Congressmen had even read the TPP bill.
DeleteIt was noteworthy, because he had noted how China could later join TPP, which all of them, including Rand Paul, said was false... Trump turned out correct on that.
And I like Rand. He just didn't know much about TPP. None of the candidates were perfect.
Just needs more of his father to rub off on him. :)
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