Monday, November 9, 2009

Why Members of Congress Won't Read the Health Care Bill or any other Bill

For those of you who wonder why members of congress don't read bills before they vote on them, and the way they are written.  An interesting post from Bruce Barlett,noted conservative economist who served Ronald Reagan, GHW Bush, and consulted with the Bush II White House on "Why Reading the Health Care Bill is a Waste."  (Click the link)

"...Reading an actual bill is a completely useless exercise for the vast majority of members of Congress and staff."

1 comment:

  1. I don't think I stated an opinion about the article. I came away aggravated that this is the way business is conducted. Yes, it is very disturbing. Many, many members of both the house and the senate are lawyers. Even the lawyers cannot read the bills!
    And regarding the summaries, who trusts whom? What is the answer? Hell, I don't know. I would guess if they didn't put all the legal mumbo jumbo in 2000 page bills that the supreme court would be filled with lawsuits challenging intent, until they did rewrite the bill with all the legalistic bull.
    I think my original point in posting this was amazement at reading it, and further saddness as to how we do business. I also wanted people to get a sense of how one man said things were.

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