• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      19 minutes ago

      you’re going to read every line of a 2000 page legal document?

      no, you have some interns basically skim it and highly the stuff that makes you look good or is the pork for your district, and as long as that’s in there, then vote yes for it.

      bills in the last two decades are overwhelmingly omnibus bills, as in one giant long document with tons of changes to the law and funding.

      we don’t pass simple single-issue bills since like the 1970s