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	<title>Politics Is You &#187; Rules Reform</title>
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		<title>Read the Bill!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe reveals the utter absurdity of law-making in our federal government.
From &#8220;Lawmakers, read the bills before you vote&#8221;:
Ramming legislation through Congress so quickly that neither lawmakers nor voters have time to read and digest it is a bipartisan crime; Republicans have been as guilty of it as Democrats. The 341-page Patriot Act, to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Boston Globe reveals the utter absurdity of law-making in our federal government.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/07/12/lawmakers_read_the_bills_before_you_vote/">&#8220;Lawmakers, read the bills before you vote&#8221;</a><a></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ramming legislation through Congress so quickly that neither lawmakers nor voters have time to read and digest it is a bipartisan crime; Republicans have been as guilty of it as Democrats. The 341-page Patriot Act, to mention just one notorious example, was introduced in the Republican-controlled House on Oct. 23, 2001, brought to a vote on Oct. 24, adopted by the Democratic-controlled Senate on Oct. 25, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on Oct. 26.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fortunately there is a bill designed to require that lawmakers post the final text for any non-emergency bill online for 72 hours before voting on it.  <a href="http://www.letfreedomringusa.com/we_the_people_can_read">LetFreedomRing.org</a> and <a href="http://readthebill.org">ReadTheBill.org</a> are both the main advocacy organizations working to get the bill discharged out of Committee by having Congressmen sign a petition to do so.  <strong>Strangely, not a single legislator in Massachusetts has signed the discharge petition.</strong></p>
<p>Well, what are you waiting for?  <a href="http://www.letfreedomringusa.com/we_the_people_can_read">Start calling!</a></p>
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