I think they should have to print every bill up in the newspapers, and no bill should reach the floor without an opportunity for the public to review them and discuss them with our Legislators.
I do not believe three days is adequate due to the complexity of many of them, and the secret language they are written sometimes can be close to impossible to translate.
It might be a bit expensive, but just one minor little bill stricken down would potentially outweigh the entire cost of doing so.
Mark

72 hours is not long enough. The Patriot Act was 342 pages originally. I don’t know about most people, but I don’t have time to read a 342 page book in three days. Also, how many bills go through congress every year? To the best of my knowledge, there have been over 3,000 this year alone (HR 3200 being the worst). Even if every bill was one page (not in my lifetime) who has the time to read over 3,000 pages?

It’s the “Sunlight Before Signing” part of his “Ethics” promises over at Organizing for America, though to be fair he did promise 5 days, not 3.

Is Senator Jim Bunning implying that Obama lied during the campaign by introducing this legislation? /sarcasm

but yet these 1,000+ page monstrosities are written intentionally to bore, deceive, confuse, and misdirect anyone that tries to read and understand them.

Too bad he didn’t propose this rule back in 2004 when the GOP actually had the votes to pass it.

I have listened to some of these people and 72 hours is not enough for their level of competence.
It should also be signed by the legislator after it is read.
Posting it on the internet is interesting….but not really useful to the American public. There should be an agency like the CBO who can write “this is what the bill says and this is what the bill does and this is what the ramifications would be” and post THAT on the internet. In California, before an election, all the ballot propositiions are written out completely. Then they are summarized and evaluated by an independent agency so the voter gets both.

I did some lobbying back when! One of the things I found was the politican delagates those petitios and other messages from his constituants to one of his staff! The staff member reports to him, hopefully truthfully! (remember when the incoming republicans fired the rabid democrat staff they received when they were elected?) The effectiveness of messages depend on the staff member! as for the bills—they have misleading titles–ALWAYS. So without a reliable report it’s necessary to at least scan all of them. But bills origionating from one certain place (and that is most of the odious ones) are skillfuly written to hide their real intent! My experience is Democrats laugh at petitions—but republicans carefully check to see if any of their generous contributors’ names are on it! Not that that makes a difference–big contributors are invited to air their “demands”!

Senator Bunning’s bill is sorely needed. I agree with several other posters that 72 hours is not enough time.

First, this bill would ensure that many more Congressmen and women actually read the bills on which they vote.

Second, the record of votes for and against this bill would objectively show which representatives truly believe their jobs are to represent the people. Those in Congress who vote against the bill should not be in public service. They are the ones who see their positions as being one of power and influence over the ignorant sheeple. We need to remind them that we are neither ignorant nor sheep.

And third, this bill would be a step toward our government being “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

The only good thing Obama and his cronies have done for us has been to awake the sleeping majority who mistakenly believed that the government had our best interests at heart.

Apathy in Congress is rampant. Members of the Senate and the House simply “float” through their careers. Most Legislation is written by lobbyists or Special Interest Groups and credit given to the Member of Congress. They are far too busy and important to actually read Bills.

Once elected they feel virtually invincible. The likelihood of their losing office is remarkably low, regardless of their actions. Statistically it is very unlikely they will be voted out. Reelection is almost a certainty.

How many criminals hold office in Congress? Tax evasion, payola, graft, corruption, etc… When they are caught they merely apologize. Rarely are they prosecuted. Millions of dollars are laundered into their “Reelection Campaign Donation” coffers every year. In my humble opinion it is time to vote out the incumbents.

God Bless our Country.

any attorney will tell you to never sign a binding contract without reading and fully understanding it first, at the risk of your financial wellbeing. Yet, members of Congress, many of them lawyers themselves, refuse to adhere to the very advice they would give their clients, at our expense. With our power of attorney in hand, they are willing to ignore procedures that would protect and support those who hired them in order to promote their own party, their own ambitions and special interests. In other words, they refuse to do the job we hired them to do and they are thumbing their noses at us. When have you ever seen a business (and the Federal Government IS a business) where the employees are allowed to continue after this type of behavior?

There are few in Congress, and the Administration, for that matter, who actually care about the health of the country. The rest have projects that are far higher on their list of priorities than the continued existence of America and the survival of American people. How can anyone allow this to happen? But more importantly, how can Democrats, being citizens of this same country, continue to support this usurpation of the authority of the people? I don’t get it. “Of the people, by the people and for the people?” Sorry, Abe. It was a good idea while it lasted, but it no longer has meaning in the United States of America.

“Blackwhite” lives. (Google it)

Unfortunately, no matter what the people in congress read ahead of time, with today’s technology, the administrations staff or that of a single bill sponsor can change whole paragraphs from the time they disperse the first draft before the vote is taken on it and no one knows what they are voting for. It all goes back to honesty and morals–we’ve been lied to so much people now accept that it’s ok to deceive even their own grandchildren. Too many non-Christians running this country.
Abe Lincoln was known as “Honest Abe”
Richard Nixon as “Tricky Dick”
William Jefferson Clinton as “Slick Willie”
What will BHO be remembers as?????????????????