LesWes

What do you think about, and would you be willing to introduce/sponsor the following bills?

Read the Bills Act: Requires representatives to sign an affidavit that they have read, or heard read to them, any law they vote to impose on the public.

One Subject at a Time Act: Requires proposed laws to stand on their own with out being attached to other unrelated issued, under a clearly titled heading.

Write the Laws Act: Requires legislators to write ALL laws, not lobbyists, not regulators, not industry experts. Elected representatives would be responsible for any rule that can land you in jail.

Thanks!

Hello Congressman Polis,

What do you think about, and would you be willing to introduce/sponsor the following bills?

Read the Bills Act: Requires representatives to sign an affidavit that they have read, or heard read to them, any law they vote to impose on the public.

One Subject at a Time Act: Requires proposed laws to stand on their own with out being attached to other unrelated issued, under a clearly titled heading.

Write the Laws Act: Requires legislators to write ALL laws, not lobbyists, not regulators, not industry experts. Elected representatives would be responsible for any rule that can land you in jail.

Thanks!

Interesting, is there somewhere you can point me to the text of the single subject bill you introduced?

Re: Your comments on the other two: If only! That is a great way to punish elected officials after the fact, but how could we protect citizens from the bad laws they pass during their 2 or 6 year tenure until we can throw them out?

Thanks for your response.

At the risk of giving a dumb answer, where in the constitution does it say congress has unlimited lawmaking power that cannot be infringed?

My opinion is that WTLA is the least important (and least understood, by me) but it engenders the best conversations so I always include it anyway.

Are constitutional rights (or grants of power) non-derogable?

Secondly, I would scrutinize the part of A1S8 that says "execution of the foregoing powers". What about areas where congress is making laws outside the scope of the foregoing powers? These three acts are clearly aimed at severely limiting congress's ability to make laws outside the scope of the constitutionally outlined federal powers.

Anyway, I don't know how to make this into an eloquent response to your erudite post, but hopefully those are some interesting ideas to chew on.