Friday, January 05, 2007
Steve King's great idea
Steve King of Iowa, the best only competent member of Congress, is talking right now on C-Span. He is proposing an extremely interesting idea.
Acknowledge the power of the blogosphere to act as "auditor" for the government, by placing several Rescission Bills in each session of Congress. Each Rescission bill would start out as a "shell", and each member of Congress, responding to constituent "auditors", would be able to add items to the bill. The items in this bill would be subtractions, not additions; each item would be like a line-item veto for some appropriation in other pending bills.
He's calling it the CUT act, which isn't the best possible name, but it is certainly the best possible idea.
Bravo, Steve! ¶ 12:49 PM
Acknowledge the power of the blogosphere to act as "auditor" for the government, by placing several Rescission Bills in each session of Congress. Each Rescission bill would start out as a "shell", and each member of Congress, responding to constituent "auditors", would be able to add items to the bill. The items in this bill would be subtractions, not additions; each item would be like a line-item veto for some appropriation in other pending bills.
He's calling it the CUT act, which isn't the best possible name, but it is certainly the best possible idea.
Bravo, Steve! ¶ 12:49 PM
