Comment on House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks agoWell I don’t know which star you mean but a lot of them are not divided the way then federal government is.
Comment on House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks agoWell I don’t know which star you mean but a lot of them are not divided the way then federal government is.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Sure, and mine is definitely not divided. But there have been contentious issues despite being predominantly one party.
I’d honestly rather a bill take much longer to pass than have a bunch of nonsense thrown in.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I think it’s a good method for achieving compromise. If the various factions perceive more benefit than cost, the bill passes. Obviously some bad things get snuck in, but you get good things out of it as well.
Even if your personal calculus is that this bill does more harm then good, I don’t think banning this method is a good idea.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’d be okay with a Congressional rule that makes passage of one bill contingent on another bill to allow for compromise, but each bill should be tracked separately so it’s transparent to voters what’s being passed. There should also be a requirement that the title of the bill sufficiently describes the purchase of the bill.
That way we could still have bundles of bills, but the content of that bundle would be a lot more transparent. Seeing something like “Aid to Ukraine and Israel” also allowing the government to ban adversarial apps does not give constituents the appropriate information to contact their representative, and it’s quite possible the representatives themselves haven’t actually read the full bill if it’s large (but might if they were broken up into reasonably-titled bills).
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I could see that being an improvement, although it’s not terribly different from the current system. It might be clearer for the public to understand.
On the other hand, reps would have to explain to their constituents why they voted for the kicking puppies act which people might have trouble grasping.