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On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:44:21 -0700, "Bill McKee"
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If Congress is not reading and understanding the bills, we should vote
them
out of office and put in a group who will introduce less and smaller bills
that can be read and understood.

The real answer is the line item veto but congress will never let that
happen. They hide too much pork in "must pass" bills to allow that.
There is a senate rule that says they can't put legislation, like this
deregulation, on an appropriations bill but they found a huge loophole
in that.


Senate rule XVI
2. The Committee on Appropriations shall not report an appropriation
bill containing amendments to such bill proposing new or general
legislation ...

I think that rule was suspended or vacated as part of the Nixon leaving
without Impeachment stuff.