I propose that any legislator who casts an up or down vote must attach a short explanation for his/her vote. The explanation need not be any longer than a paragraph or two. With records being digitized these days, records management should not be an issue.
This would give our legislators the opportunity to explain themselves and their reasoning behind a vote _at the time of the vote_. We could then avoid so much back pedaling, word parsing and semantic gaming that goes on Sunday mornings and during re-election campaigns.
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I agree and I also think there should be a rule implemented that would stop attachments to amendments that do not relate to the matter coming up for votes, such as the guns being allowed in National Parks attached to the Credit Card bill. These are separate issues and should be treated as such.
It should not be mandatory. And it wouldn't do much of anything to stop word parsing etc.