We’ve all heard the stories about the major, last-minute, unreviewed changes to the PATRIOT Act, and about huge “omnibus” spending bills that seem like blank checks to spend our tax money on whatever comes over the transom. And of course, we all know about the pork projects and poison pills that get slipped into completely unrelated legislation; these shady edits are only practical because the bills simply aren’t read by many who vote on them.
Apparently, though, actually reading bills in Congress before voting on them is a rare thing in general, not just in isolated, specific cases. The “Read the Bills Act” seems to address this obvious competency gap in the process of lawmaking. It seems like a no-brainer; they might as well call it the “Do Your Job Act.” Seems like something we should support, doesn’t it?
