Comments on: Does Reading The Bill Really Matter? http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/08/17/does-reading-the-bill-really-matter/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:08:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: » Daily Links - 08/18/09 NoisyRoom.net: Where liberty dwells, there is my country… http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/08/17/does-reading-the-bill-really-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-123775 » Daily Links - 08/18/09 NoisyRoom.net: Where liberty dwells, there is my country… Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:06:36 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=26178#comment-123775 [...] Does Reading The Bill Really Matter? [...] [...] Does Reading The Bill Really Matter? [...]

]]> By: kerwin http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/08/17/does-reading-the-bill-really-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-123755 kerwin Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:47:13 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=26178#comment-123755 It does help to read the bill but as you point out the language can rather vague and so open to interpretation. You also have to consider how other bills already in effect will effect the bill in question, which is why you need lawyers or at least some knowledge of those laws. Of course all of this relies on the assumption that the courts will not choose to create some legal fiction when interpreting the law which is perhaps an unrealistic assumption. It does help to read the bill but as you point out the language can rather vague and so open to interpretation. You also have to consider how other bills already in effect will effect the bill in question, which is why you need lawyers or at least some knowledge of those laws. Of course all of this relies on the assumption that the courts will not choose to create some legal fiction when interpreting the law which is perhaps an unrealistic assumption.

]]> By: Paul_In_Houston http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/08/17/does-reading-the-bill-really-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-123739 Paul_In_Houston Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:10:13 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=26178#comment-123739 <i>There’s just one hitch: You could read the entire health bill and still not have a very good idea of how the plan would work</i>. Well,... if we could <i>require</i> them to actually <i>read</i> the bills, then perhaps <i>they</i> could require that bills submitted to them should be comprehensible to anyone of reasonable intelligence (assuming that congress folk could meet that standard). - There’s just one hitch: You could read the entire health bill and still not have a very good idea of how the plan would work.

Well,… if we could require them to actually read the bills, then perhaps they could require that bills submitted to them should be comprehensible to anyone of reasonable intelligence (assuming that congress folk could meet that standard).

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