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by bagicide stayed 10 months too long on August 16th, 2009
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by Im Alec has abandoned this account on September 8th, 2009
Not so much write as read. If every Congressman were required to read every page of every bill, and pass a simple test on it with a low pass mark, there would be a lot less and a lot better law. At the moment, in most cases nobody has read the bill all through, let alone tried to understand it. Each bill is a huge wodge of clauses bundled together on a "you vote for may clause, I'll vote for yours" basis.
Laws necessarily contain technical language, and may not pass the eight grade test, particularly for technical legislation. But they should be comprehensible to, and comprehended by, those who pass them.
SOPA and PIPA have been shelved by congress. Pleased?
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Im Alec...You are so right...written so the "public opinion" actually counts for something other than mindless controversy.
by Pistachio on September 8th, 2009