Lawmakers challenged to read health care bill before voting
Let Freedom Ring, a group that promotes constitutional government and traditional values, has launched a campaign to get all 535 lawmakers in the House and Senate to pledge to not vote on the health care bill (likely to top 1,000 pages) until they have personally read it and the bill has been posted on the Internet for 72 hours. Full Story »
Posted by Joey Baker
Never really thought about it, but makes sense: congress members don't actually read bills before they pass them, they just read summaries. – that's pretty much unacceptable. If bills are so complex that the 535 people out of 300 million people we've elected to deal with the problem can't read them, … well… this is an issue.