http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/we-dont-read-the-bills/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/we-dont-read-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-21780 RickC Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:29:17 +0000 http://www.feeblog.org/?p=784#comment-21780 Doug,If some of the stuff I've read it's even worse than that. Sorry I can't point to the exact place I read this, but as I understand it, often it is lobbyists who write regulations and legislation. Can someone tell me I'm wrong? Please? Doug,If some of the stuff I’ve read it’s even worse than that. Sorry I can’t point to the exact place I read this, but as I understand it, often it is lobbyists who write regulations and legislation. Can someone tell me I’m wrong? Please?

]]> http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/we-dont-read-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-21779 Doug Thorson Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:14:59 +0000 http://www.feeblog.org/?p=784#comment-21779 Sheldon,What can be more revealing than Maxine Walters ignorant approach to her position as a U. S. Representative. She was not even embarrassed by the fact that not reading the bills is SOP in congress. What is going on in congress is a display of a broken legislative process that demands fixing. I agree with Mario Rizzo's question, "...if our alleged representatives don’t know what is in the laws they pass, in what sense can we be said to have consented to be governed by them?"The other questions I have are, who, if not our representatives, is writing the legislation that is being voted on? That question is somewhat "tongue in cheek," since we all know it is the lawyers/staffers, but who elected them and how much power are they exerting over the process and the electorate? Did the Constitution foresee and therefore empower legislative aids to write legislation that representatives would then not read but vote "yea" or "nay" on?I'm having a train wreck and will stop now. Sheldon,What can be more revealing than Maxine Walters ignorant approach to her position as a U. S. Representative. She was not even embarrassed by the fact that not reading the bills is SOP in congress. What is going on in congress is a display of a broken legislative process that demands fixing. I agree with Mario Rizzo’s question, “…if our alleged representatives don’t know what is in the laws they pass, in what sense can we be said to have consented to be governed by them?”The other questions I have are, who, if not our representatives, is writing the legislation that is being voted on? That question is somewhat “tongue in cheek,” since we all know it is the lawyers/staffers, but who elected them and how much power are they exerting over the process and the electorate? Did the Constitution foresee and therefore empower legislative aids to write legislation that representatives would then not read but vote “yea” or “nay” on?I’m having a train wreck and will stop now.

]]> http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/we-dont-read-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-21778 Perry Willis Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:03:02 +0000 http://www.feeblog.org/?p=784#comment-21778 Anyone who wants to do something about this should check out Downsize DC's "Read the Bills Act" -- http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/27 Anyone who wants to do something about this should check out Downsize DC’s “Read the Bills Act” — http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/27

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