Comments on: I was relatively unhappy with the John Edwards Gnomedex Keynote… http://www.vixen.com/blog/2006/06/30/17 Coding, Connections, and Other Bloggy Bits of Goodness Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:14:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: RedMage http://www.vixen.com/blog/2006/06/30/17#comment-420 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:20:28 +0000 http://www.vixen.com/blog/2006/06/30/17#comment-420 How do senators collaborate on a bill? Usually not in person; usually through their aides and other back-channel communication. Often times the sponsors or committees work together a little closer, and then talk about into a mike in an empty room to "read it into the record." You can see lots of that on C-SPAN. Most of the import legislation going on isn't even a bill proper; it's on an amendment to someones elses "must past" bill. If there's anything we need to get rid off (besides perhaps signing statements and earmarks) we should make it much harder to place unreleated crap on other bills. Yeah, I've got a personal story on this one recently, where one of "my" bills got creamed in the state of FL by a late amendment to another bill. (Ok, not my personal bill, but one that I really needed to pass...) How do senators collaborate on a bill? Usually not in person; usually through their aides and other back-channel communication. Often times the sponsors or committees work together a little closer, and then talk about into a mike in an empty room to “read it into the record.” You can see lots of that on C-SPAN. Most of the import legislation going on isn’t even a bill proper; it’s on an amendment to someones elses “must past” bill. If there’s anything we need to get rid off (besides perhaps signing statements and earmarks) we should make it much harder to place unreleated crap on other bills.

Yeah, I’ve got a personal story on this one recently, where one of “my” bills got creamed in the state of FL by a late amendment to another bill.
(Ok, not my personal bill, but one that I really needed to pass…)

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