I would agree. The hidden agendas stuffed into bills is intentionally misleading.
While they are public knowledge on senate.gov - it is difficult to navigate, plus the language utilized.
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An alternative to this could be using AI to read bills and summarize them as well, but still, there could potentially be ways to hide parts from the AI
All bills contained to 2 pages of explanation and written in common sense language. Then allow for 2 pages for legal writing.
100% agree
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What about an expiration limit or something similar? For example, if the bill allocates funding for a project & isn’t used or extended by a specific date, those funds automatically go back to the general fund. Also, if it’s a regulation, add an expiration date so congress has to vote to extend it (like 5 or 10 year renewal periods) or it is automatically repealed. This would eliminate funding for projects that never gets used from sitting unused while we’re paying $1T every 90 days to service the debt we have now, and it will prevent regulations from having to be repealed when they become obsolete.
Citizen Assemblies could be triggered if it’s a close vote or if it’s determined there needs to be more research into the bill.
Why does any bill need to be more than 10,000 words (20 single line pages)? That’s a genuine question. If it’s one issue, and it’s clearly and concisely written, is there any type of bill or scenario where you would need more than 10,000 words?
no bill to exceed 10 pages in length, and i personally suggest Line-Item Veto for President but im willing to compromise on that one if need be.
I 
agree with this.
I also feel like if a law is passed, one should be taken off the books. Maybe more.
We have so many old outdated laws on the books we are all probably eligible for arrest at any given moment.
I could not agree more!!
It is absolutely insane what gets passed and what doesn’t because they lump things in each bill that has nothing to do with the main part of the bill!
I like this point…to a degree, its not a solution to make lists upon more lists to solve a said problem. If this path continues, we get so indundated with legal rules our hands and ankles are effectively tied together and progress stalls.
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I 10000% agree. Apparently some people sneak things into these giant bills, hand them in at the last second so there is no time to read them. Then you’re the asshole if the gov shuts down.
This is crucial. There were bills Republicans attempted to pass but Democrats blocked until they slipped funding for Ukraine or other areas they saw fit. The Republicans say no, and here come the Democrats to let the media spin it as Republicans voted no to resolving crucial policy, like immigration and other reforms. So dumb. We can clearly see their strategy. It gets old after a while.
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Because this ensures checks and balances. One chamber is population based, the other equal vote by state. If it was single vote per state bigger states would feel underrepresented.
There needs to be a more straight forward user friendly way for citizens to read the bills as well. The .gov portal in place now is difficult to navigate.
Congress should have to publish via some website or app every bill and relevant status information and citizens can up and down vote similar to social media post so Congress persons can have a glimpse real time into the support and citizens will have a stronger sense of engagement with individual single issue bills.
All terms should be properly defined. No chance of misinterpretation of words.
I had been thinking a 10,000 word limit, but 1 page is ok. I’m for no exceptions, though. If you give them a loophole they will jump through it.
According to the Rule of Law, laws should also be known and accessible. Too many laws exist today that are esoteric and convoluted. They should be easily understood and concise. Of course, 5,000 pages of spaghetti language and pork billing doesn’t help but any drafted law should be peer-reviewed by a test group of citizens picked at random. If the test group can not identify what the bill is about, it should be rejected immediately before reaching the floor of the House or Senate.
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I have been saying this for years!!! Bills are padded with so much junk. while we are at it, prohibit lobbyists.
There should definitely be a time limit that each bill should have time to be read. 1 hour per page or 15 minutes or something to that effect. In all actuallity, if written in non legalese, one page shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to read, but this would give a chance to reread, look up and research issues, etc …
Also, the time should be during reasonable business hours. 6am to 10 pm or 8 am to 8pm. None of this, 2000 page bill handed out at midnight and we are voting at 2 am.
No votes should be taken in the middle of the night. This whole waiting until past the last minute is irresponsible.
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