Comment

Cap and Trade Pros and Cons

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Zimriel6/29/2009 12:03:08 pm PDT

I can’t say what’s in the bill. I can say that the bill never should have made it to the floor. It’s an abuse of procedure for the House to pass a bill with “placeholders” in it, and a betrayal of trust for individual members to vote “yea” on something they hain’t read.

Iain Murray proposes a Constitutional Amendment. Call it the Anti-Ignorant-Fool Amendment:

“No bill shall be deemed to have passed the House of Representatives or the Senate unless such bill shall have received a majority of yeay votes from the membership of each House; yeay votes shall only be counted from members who swear under penalty of perjury that they have read the entirety of the text of each bill.”