The system doesn’t work for the people anymore, the politicians and their handlers have made sure it works for them - this is a positive step to hold both bureaucrats and elected officials accountable - No more Omnibus spending bills with backdoors and loopholes .
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I would love to see a page limit closer to five pages and also a requirement that whenever a new bill is passed you must delete an old bill.
Without the influence and incentives offered by lobbyists it would not be a career. Politicians with experience is a good thing, i believe, but the lobbyists controlling them must be banned
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This is amazing and my family and everyone I have spoken to are on board with this. Ive never heard one person disagree with this. And if they “congress” complain about the length of them being their to vote on the seperate bills. They can stick it, its our taxes paying for them to vote for us. Absolutely ridiculous with the minimal work most of them do to get paid as much as they do. Its disgusting.
This clearly is a important issue 
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I think voting in person is debatable. Why is tax money going to transport government officials to and from D.C.? Secure voting on bills can be done from their home state in a zoom type call. This would also keep them more available to the people they are supposed to represent.
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No more traitors that say garbage like this:
Pelosi: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
I love the Single issue bills idea. No more finger pointing (by either party) saying the other party won’t pass such and such bill to save a Childs life when there are a handful of other corrupt policies hidden within the bill that they don’t mention.
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Yes. Single subject bills. Quit hiding add-ons in lengthy text.
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Do you mind sharing South Dakota’s verbiage?
I’m going through the comments and am going to consolidate and rewrite some of it. I’d love to compare to South Dakota’s version as well.
Excellent ideas here! Bravo! 
A government for and by the people of these United States of America!
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I agree, there should be a maximum page length to days to review the bill. Many of these bills are intentionally long and limit the time of review so they can push hidden aspects through due to the inability to adequately read the bill ahead of time. So two parts. 1. length of bill by page = time of days to review. 2. Maximum length of any Bill overall. We can’t have bills that take years to review, they need to be simple and concise.
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Absolutely. We can fix this government and this is the way. I have 5 other ways to end the corruption.
1 end lobbying it’s legal bribery for the rich
2 term limits. It’s public service not a career
3 campaign spending caps. Get the money out of politics
4 audit the fed we should know where our money goes
5 election integrity. I want open sourced blockchain tracking on every single ballot with verified proof of citizenship
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I agree with the single subject bill. So many of the bills with fluff have federal funds to states for just about everything. Why couldn’t we have some sort of special bill that would take care of states asking for federal funds. Adding these to bills causes our senators and congressmen to make deals with each other-you vote for my bill and everything it entails and I will vote for your state funding bill and everything it entails. States should stand on their own and if the federal government was out of the states business, states maybe could stand on their own. It would definitely trickle down to having states manage their budgets and economy a lot tighter.
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I dont believe this was a discussion against checks and balances; but to simplify, streamline and work effectively to push bills through or deny them
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It can be done in ome page. The attorneys love to make it complex. It needs to be simple and every American should be able to understand it.
This would also show us the true loyalties of our elected officials. With massive grouped bills, one can never know which part of the bill said politician supports. With one issue bills, it would be clear if they are acting in the interest of their constituents or their money.
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EVERY $Spending Bill should have a death date. Permanent programs maybe made more solvent other programs can quietly “die on the vine”.
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Most of this applies to ballots as well. Readability level should be at grade 8-10 instead of 14-19. We have combined open primaries and RCV in one proposition on our current ballot.
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Mandating the budget to be written and passed annually could be a single issue bill! Apparently following the rules doesn’t apply to current members of congress!
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Every bill should have a page for signatures that the bill has been read and understood in order to vote on the bill.
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