In a recent speech at a National Health Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) questioned his very own job responsibility of actually reading a bill before voting on it:
If it takes two days and two lawyers to read a bill, as Conyers suggests, then he needs to give himself two days and get two lawyers to break it down for him so that he can vote accordingly, otherwise he shouldn't vote. Period. More importantly though, when did it become the status quo to vote on bills without reading them? That's what happened in large part with the near trillion dollar stimulus and look how well that's working out.
These people were elected by the people, for the people, and are expected to make rational decisions based on facts and substance, WHICH MIGHT REQUIRE READING A BILL FROM TIME TO TIME BEFORE YOU VOTE ON IT!
