One conservative lawmaker, upset by the $1.3 trillion spending bill last month, wants to pass legislation that would give lawmakers more time to read bills before they vote on them.
“This isn’t a very big ask,” Rep. Tom Garrett, R-Va., told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
Garrett’s bill would amend House rules, requiring “any bill to be publicly available for a number of minutes that’s double the number of pages,” the website for Virginia radio station WVTF reported.
The spending bill, which was signed by President Donald Trump, was 2,232 pages long. The House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative lawmakers, said the bill was released fewer than 36 hours before lawmakers voted on it.
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4 comments:
Shall we recall Nancy Pelosi's chuckling statement "You'll have to pass it to find out what's in it"?
To deny our representatives the opportunity to read bills before they go to a vote is the very picture of insanity.
Fix it!!
This is the single most intelligent piece of legislation I have ever seen come out of a legislature.
have to pass it to find out what's in it.
Great idea. I would change it to read that availability would be twice the minutes as the number of words, not pages.
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