CNSNews.com – Pelosi Won’t Give Public a Week to Review Text of Health-Care Bill Before House Votes on It — Whatever happened to the public review promises made by the Democrats? What gives?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi D.-Calif. will not give the public a week to review the final text of a health-care reform bill before it is voted on later this year.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D.-Nev. has also declined to commit to giving the public a week to read and consider the final health-care bill.
At her press briefing on Thursday, Pelosi was asked whether the health-care bill would be handled differently than the stimulus bill, which came up in February. The 1,071-page final text of that bill was posted on the House Appropriations Committee’s Web site late on a Thursday night and then voted on the next day.
Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where, if lawmakers aren’t given sufficient time to read a bill all the way through, they would simply and collectively refuse to vote on it?
I would think that voting on a bill you didn’t read would leave you open to attacks from your opponents come re-election because you vote on things you don’t know anything about because you didn’t read them. I would think the mere threat of this would be enough to keep this from happening.
I’m just an idealistic nutjob, I guess.
Interestingly, the entire constitution is far shorter than this bill and probably all others as well. Perhaps we should instate a law that no single bill can be longer than the constitution.
I also think that laws should have expiration dates to be decided on at the time they are passed with a maximum of around 25 or 50 years. If it’s a good law, it will be extended. If it’s a serious case of civil rights, it should probably become an amendment to the constitution.
#42, Perhaps we should instate a law that no single bill can be longer than the constitution.
I was real close to posting something similar but couldn’t come up with a reasonable length.
The Constitution makes a perfect ruler. Thanks.
Now we just need to keep from 5,000 amendments to make it longer . . .
I also think that laws should have expiration dates to be decided on at the time they are passed with a maximum of around 25 or 50 years. If it’s a good law, it will be extended. If it’s a serious case of civil rights, it should probably become an amendment to the constitution.
I agree. You call your congressmen/senators and I’ll call mine. Maybe we can build support for this.
This made me smile and hopefully after your last post it will do the same for you:
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.