Oklahoma state senator Nathan Dahm discusses the amount of the time that legislators are given to read bills before a vote is cast on them. Dahm explains that legislators were given the agenda for 85 bills on Tuesday night at 10pm, with voting commencing the next morning at 9am. Follow the below link if it allows you to:
It is outrageous that this state of affairs is allowed in our government. Before anything else needs to happen, something needs to be done about this reckless speed-voting on a pile of bills all at once. The process must be slowed down, the bills must be read in their entirety, there must be a limit to how much extra crap that can be stuffed into a single bill, and the lobbyist who writes the bill must be made known. It would slow the process tremendously, which would be a good thing. That bills must not be voted on before they are read seems like common sense, and to vote on a bill you haven’t read sounds like the height on idiocy. Yet this is standard operating procedure for every level of government in the Unites States.
