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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I pointed out Strom Thurmond used to read the telephone book for 24hrs back when you had to do that for filibusters. Or if they droned 3k pages over multiple days, you still have the same problem that most people won't know what it says. I mentioned a page limit, to that of a typical novel, 200-300 pages. Still, someone reading 300 pages of a spending bill is probably going to be hard to pay attention to.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The govt should be out of a lot of stuff it's getting involved in. The other issue, which is really a big one, is that the 6000 outage bill encompasses a ton of stuff. A bill should be readable, one issue max. None of this is it to see what's in it.