OPINION:
Every legislator should have to read each bill before they vote on it. And every president should have to read each bill before signing it into law. Many bills contain thousands of pages and are never fully read by our representatives. Riders, amendments, “pork” and things that don’t have anything to do with the main part of the bill are added all the time.
We need a national law or constitutional amendment mandating that all bills must be read aloud to legislators before being voted on, and any bill must be read aloud to the executive before being signed into law. Also, all bills should be posted online before they are voted on.
CHUCK MANN
Greensboro, N.C.
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