I agreeto Idea Require all laws be read aloud in congress and posted on youtube
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Require all laws be read aloud in congress and posted on youtube

Why Is This Idea Important?: To allow full representation.

I think all laws should be read out loud in the debates and then voted on. Also I think a copy the summary should be mailed to every voter. With a ballot attached. If in 60 days of passage the public says no it is defeated. Because the current system does not represent the majority of the common people.

Submitted by packolman 3 years ago

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  1. Robert Wildblood

    Has anyone considered how much it would cost to send a copy of the summary of every Congressional bill to every voter? If anything like this were to be seriously considered, it would be more efficient to have it done through the internet (which, by the way, is how we should run all of our elections).

    3 years ago
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  2. Bryan Rosander

    Public commentary and peer review is good. Public voting on individual issues is bad. We have a Constitutional Republic for a reason, and its to keep the public from voting on individual issues.

    3 years ago
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  3. clvngodess

    Cut the military budget to help pay for this. We spend trillions of dollars on the death machine, aka, military industrial complex. They can afford some oversight, and to lose some of their budget to cover more relevant and important issues.

    How many laws and bills get past congress without actually being read and comprehended by the congressional representatives themselves and by the people?

    I think everyone should know what's coming before the congress and participate in the dialog.

    3 years ago
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  4. eric

    No, the reason for our Constitutional Republic is to avoid tyranny by majority. The Constitution lays out the guidelines withing which debate and public initiative may proceed. That works for me.

    3 years ago
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  5. pabro50

    Bryan Rosaner, are you some sort of political protector? why would every issue that gets voted on not be of interest to the people that it will affect. With the technology of today, sending out ballots and letting the people decide how thing will be voted is much better than how it is decided today. We could save untold billions of by eliminating the entire senate and house. let the people of this country, the citizens of this country decide where their money gets spent. And make the governing body have to get a job to survive. I bet that would change some of the BS that happens up there.

    3 years ago
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  6. Bryan Rosander

    I'm trying to protect the ideals of our founding fathers. A democracy will only last until people realize they can vote to give themselves other people's money.

    3 years ago
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  7. Robert Wildblood

    Bryan,

    We don't live in a democracy, we live in a representative republic in which it is the responsibility of the to represent the people. One of the things we need to do is to change the constitution, not to create a democracy (with more than 300 million people that would be a real problem) but to limit the amount of time that people can serve in congress (which was one of the original intents of the founding fathers), to elect people who are truly representative of their constituents, and to make a constitutional ban for the kind of lobbying that is being carried out by the big moneyed corporations whose major reason for being is greed.

    3 years ago
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  8. Bryan Rosander

    Constitutional ban on lobbying? How? Sounds like government over-regulating things to me.

    3 years ago
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