Washington DC politics...Cuz I'm in DC you See

A lot of people, me included find it absolutely abhorent that congress votes on bills they do not read. Sure some of them are long and boring but that's not a legitimate excuse. If it were, I would use it all the time! I would skip anything and everything I didn't find interesting. Sure my boss came in yesterday and asked me to review a contract but the details were just SOOOOO uninteresting so i skipped the T's and C's. In my perfect world I would get a raise for this...which is pretty much what congress is doing right now.

The scary part of this toxic coctail of passing bills into law that you don't read is that unlike blowing off your homework that only affects you, these bills affect everyone in one way or another. Taxes, social issues, public projects just to name a few. The Pateiot act is just one small example where it become common knowledge that the majority of congress, both the House and Senate did not read it. THE MAJORITY! Not just a fringe group of lazy ass congressmen, the majority had no idea what the details of the patriot act enacted.

Here's my solution, let's create an independent group of professors or analysts that create basic quizes on bills congress is going to vote on. I guarentee you this would either make the language of the bills easier to undertand and interpret or they would become much shorter (which in tern would help with transparency). A side effect would be that they might read the whole bill and possibly even make it harder to slip all of this pork spending into the bills. I don't think it's too much to ask a congressman to read what he is voting on. I'm pretty sure it's the main requirement of their job.