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Great Idea!

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

Rep. Brian Baird writes an op-ed in today’s WaPo that’s too rich for words.

His revolutionary idea: Congressmen should actually read pieces of legislation before voting on them.

How very sad that it needed to be said. It’s even more inexcusable when you consider the fact that Congress has already delegated a huge swath of its lawmaking power to the executive regulatory agencies.

And yet they still can’t find the time to actually read the remaining laws they pass, and expect us to follow.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, November 27th, 2004 at 8:15 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Great Idea!”

  1. #1 |  The Statrix |  November 27th, 2004 at 9:47 pm

    Reading Is Fundamental

    The Washington Post published an op-ed today from Democratic Rep. Brian Baird wherein he makes the absurd suggestion that congressmen be required to actually read bills before voting yea or nea on them. Given another ten years of imperial decline,…