If You Could Pass a Bill About Legislative Procedure...
...what would it be?
Let's be clear, here: No bills to fund multi-billion-dollar infrastructure spending programs, implement effective climate-change-abatement measures, send BushCo to the Hague, etc.
This isn't that kind of fantasy.
But go ahead and fantasize, if you could pass a bill, OR implement a rule, that would change how Congress (either House or Senate or both) does its business, what would it be?
Would you end seniority rules?
End the filibuster?
Limit the type and scope of amendments?
Change vacation schedules?
What?
I'll start: I'd pass the "Anti-Orwellian Bill Titling Rule" which would require bill titles to be created by a nonpartisan commission of High School English teachers with a couple of Constitutional lawyers acting as consultants, adequately and accurately describing the intent and/or likely outcome of the measure being legislated.
Yeah, I know, but we're fantasizing here.
wishfully,
Bright
