Ev, you raise a good point that I think is important in politics.
What the U.S. really needs is a GERMAINE AMENDMENT AMENDMENT to the
constitution. (Or at least the house rules.)
Currently, Amendments added to a bill are 99% non-germaine.
Indeed, that's how all the REAL issues of how the country works get shoved
through in the background completely unheard by the public and the 70% of
congress that's just a show. Us poor morons think and hear that what's
being voted on is some idiocy about the internet, in reality, that's just a
trivial issue as far as voting of the bill, and the 'back-room' dealmaking
- it's just the window dressing.
IMHO all Bills should suffer only germaine amendments
This would radically change politcs.
(That's just one reason Tom Foley should rot in hell - he personally killed
the A-Z bill, which would have created the cleanest voting, at least for a
few days, seen in Congress 100 yrs.)
IMHO the framers foresaw many problems developing and countered them, but
they missed the bizarre structure of bills and 'amendments' which we have
now. A very simple Germaine Amendment Amendment would solve the problems
at a stroke.
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