When bills this large are written such that it is a monumental task to simply read it, it really poses the question of who is actually writing these things? Sure, not the whole thing is written by one person, but someone has to do the aggregating. Who decides which parts to include and which parts to not? Does that person read the parts they allow in? Or is it just "I trust you" and they tack in whatever the other person says?
And surely these aren't written out by the congressmen themselves. I'd imagine they're written by staffers or possibly even interest groups, then given to the congressman, who presumably give it to another congressman's staffer to combine with the rest of it. But does the original congressman always read it?
How likely is it that there is verbiage in these bills that hasn't been read by a single congressman, even the person who added it? How likely is it that we have laws that were written exclusively by non-elected staffers and passed into law without even a glimpse?
When bills this large are written such that it is a monumental task to simply read it, it really poses the question of who is actually writing these things? Sure, not the whole thing is written by one person, but someone has to do the aggregating. Who decides which parts to include and which parts to not? Does that person read the parts they allow in? Or is it just "I trust you" and they tack in whatever the other person says?
And surely these aren't written out by the congressmen themselves. I'd imagine they're written by staffers or possibly even interest groups, then given to the congressman, who presumably give it to another congressman's staffer to combine with the rest of it. But does the original congressman always read it?
How likely is it that there is verbiage in these bills that hasn't been read by a single congressman, even the person who added it? How likely is it that we have laws that were written exclusively by non-elected staffers and passed into law without even a glimpse?
They’re written by staffers, 100%.