Thursday, July 30, 2009

Reading Bills Before Voting On Them

How insane is it that Democrat politicians are arguing that they have no need to read any bills before voting on them?

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) actually said during a speech at a National Press Club luncheon that he sees no point in lawmakers reading the health care bill. Not only is there no time, but they would need to have two lawyers with them to interpret it.

Aren't a large portion of politicians lawyers? Suddenly they can't understand their own bills?

Conyers specifically said, "What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"

Two days? Why rush such an important piece of legislation? Take a load off. Take a few weeks to read it. Voting "yes" on a piece of legislation without even knowing what is in it is asinine one would think.

Then again, liberals have done worse.



Here's Rep. Brian Bilbray's (R-CA) opinion on this:



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Douglas V. Gibbs

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