Thursday, January 3, 2013

How to fix Congress

If Congress was only allowed to put one, single issue into each bill, a lot of things would be better.   Wasteful spending would disappear, because no one would want to be the author of pork.   Also, at election time, you could know exactly what the imcumbent had voted for and against during the preceeding term.   That's because there would be no opportunity for back-door deals and eleventh hour insertions of wasteful projects like bridges to nowhere.   And Congress would be a lot more efficient: propose a bill, vote on it and move along to the next one.    One bill, one issue, no riders.   Isn't that the way the Founding Fathers did it?   It would probably require a Constitutional amendment, but so did women getting the vote.   It can be done.   Tell your Congresspeople!