How The US Government Operates Should Make You Angry To Your Core “Congress had about 10 hours of hearings over the Patriot Act, and then we took a break, late, you know, early in the evening. When we came back onto the floor of the house, they put a different bill there that was much larger. They swapped it out. They eliminated what was called the enactment clause, put a new put a new bill in front of the congress, which I no one read except maybe some staff.” “I spent about an hour and a half at the clerk's desk riffling through the bill, reading as fast as I could, and what I found out is it expanded government's powers in an extraordinary way.” “It gave government the ability to spy on people, to look at their bank records, their health records, or, uh, their education records, or library. I mean, some of this has, so, you know, been amended out. But the core thing was that the Patriot Act set the government against the people. And so I I voted against it because I read it, and and most members didn't. But they voted many voted for it because it's the Patriot Act, which is saluted.”
@WallStreetApes Bills need to be a maximum of 25 pages in plain text, and subject matter only related to the main topic, with all member required to read them prior to voting. Bill too long? Make another one.
@RealNOBrien @WallStreetApes One bill at a time. One vote on each bill.
@RealNOBrien @WallStreetApes "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." James Madison
@RealNOBrien @WallStreetApes Great idea!! And love that you included “no pork!”
@RealNOBrien @WallStreetApes There you go making “common sense”, they don’t have that in politics.
@RealNOBrien @WallStreetApes YES YES YES!!! I’ve been saying that for years! And it needs to be written in plain English that you don’t need a lawyer to decipher! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! 🇺🇸