Read The Bill bill

[Jolly]

I support Rand Paul's bill.

[taiwan_girl]

What bill is that? The one that makes me leader of the world? LOL

If so, I support that too!!

[jon-nyc]

If someone googles it could you post it here? If no one does, I fully understand.

[Jolly]

It's actually a resolution to change Senate rules.

https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/sen-rand-paul-introduces-‘read-bills’-resolution

[George K]

"would require all bills, amendments, and conference reports to be filed for one day for every 20 pages before it can be considered"

So, a 2000 page bill would have 100 days for consdieration

I'm okay with that.

"it is imperative we pay close attention to the legislation we pass"

[jon-nyc]

Seems like various congresses have written this into chamber rules only to go in and violate it.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Read The Bill bill:

"would require all bills, amendments, and conference reports to be filed for one day for every 20 pages before it can be considered"

So, a 2000 page bill would have 100 days for consdieration

I'm okay with that.

"it is imperative we pay close attention to the legislation we pass"

I could live with less time, but I heard Paul on Bongino's radio show yesterday and he said just this week a 100 page bill dropped on his desk and the vote was an hour after the bill was received. The effect was to create a madhouse among his staff, as everybody he had dropped everything to try to digest the bill and figure out exactly what it would do.

That's no way to run a railroad...

[Mik]

This may not be the proposal (or it may be), but certainly some form of responsibility has to be applied.

But then I support voter literacy testing anyway. If you can't be bothered to become at least marginally educated on the issues in front of you, you have failed your responsibility as a citizen.

[Jolly]

Amen.

The Founders believed the only way a republic could work, was to have an educated citizenry.

[LuFins Dad]

They also need to get rid of omnibus bills.

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in Read The Bill bill:

"would require all bills, amendments, and conference reports to be filed for one day for every 20 pages before it can be considered"

Sounds like some old software project management “rule” that says “X man-weeks of code review for every man-week of coding” or “X number of QA testers for every programmer” … I don’t see software shops doing this anymore.

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in Read The Bill bill:

They also need to get rid of omnibus bills.

Heck, they need to pass budgets on time rather than doing continuing resolutions that lasts a quarter or less at a time multiple times a year. Not a good way to run a country if all the agencies have to deal with the legally real possibilities of running out of funds multiple times every year.