Obama Pundit

by Obama Pundit
There has been a clear drop in Obama’s approval ratings, but the mainstream media still continues to insist they are ‘really high’, as exemplified by this bit in Time:
Obama has so far been able to maintain high approval ratings.  Even though he’s showing some weakening in his approval rating, they overall remain very [...]

by Hector N. Fertig
This reads a lot like the “Read the Bill Act” from Downsize DC.
Making it a Constitutional Amendment gets around the Constitutional issues arising from the Speech or Debate Clause (Art. I, Section 6, Clause 1), but leaves it vulnerable to the Law of Unintended Consequences.  While this is precisely the way I [...]

by Obama Pundit
Bill, I really love your proposal.  I think it will have the desired effect of eventually making bills shorter, cleaner and easier to read.
Question:  Would there be a mechanism, some kind of teeth, to ensure that Congress actually abides by this amendment?
This seems to me to be the kind of amendment that 80 percent [...]

by C. William Chattin
“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 [...]