How about we no longer pass massive omnibus bills. One bill with one law. Minimum wage? Get your own bill. Keystone? Get your own bill. Giving people back their own money (aka tax refund)? Get your own bill.
Treat it like a resume. Keep it to one to two pages.
I like the idea, but the problem is that the government has to pass a lot of "janitorial" legislation. These spending bills often include hundreds of items for different government agencies that are more or less guaranteed passes, splitting them up into their own bills would take massive amounts of time even just to do the roll call and vote on them one by one, they'd never get anything else done. Personally I would love the government to never get anything done but seems I'm a minority on that.
How about we no longer pass massive omnibus bills. One bill with one law. Minimum wage? Get your own bill. Keystone? Get your own bill. Giving people back their own money (aka tax refund)? Get your own bill.
Treat it like a resume. Keep it to one to two pages.
I like the idea, but the problem is that the government has to pass a lot of "janitorial" legislation. These spending bills often include hundreds of items for different government agencies that are more or less guaranteed passes, splitting them up into their own bills would take massive amounts of time even just to do the roll call and vote on them one by one, they'd never get anything else done. Personally I would love the government to never get anything done but seems I'm a minority on that.
Perhaps we could have a process by which that can happen, but any law with too much unrelated shit in it could be struck down by the courts.
Of course that presumes a functioning court, which we don't have.