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Lawmakers should all have to read and understand the laws they vote on.
Lawmakers in Congress are under fire from digital rights campaigners for embedding three controversial changes to online copyright and trademark laws into the must-pass $2.3 trillion legislative package—which includes a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill and a $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill—that could receive floor votes in the House and Senate as early as Monday evening.
The punitive provisions crammed into the enormous bill (pdf), warned Evan Greer of the digital rights group Fight for the Future, "threaten ordinary Internet users with up to $30,000 in fines for engaging in everyday activity such as downloading an image and re-uploading it... [or] sharing memes."
I'll get nothing again this time,
I agree too.
Lawmakers should all have to read and understand the laws they vote on.
If they don't have time, then that proves that the laws are too complex.
Yes, and what happened to putting bills on the Internet for the public to view before Congress takes a vote?
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4 (ii) in the matter preceding subpara5 graph (A), by striking ‘‘the non-Federal
6 sponsor shall’’ and inserting ‘‘an eligible
7 subrecipient shall, with respect to the dam
8 to be rehabilitated by the eligible sub9 recipient’’;
10 (iii) by amending subparagraph (A) to
11 read as follows:
12 ‘‘(A) demonstrate that the community in
13 which the dam is located participates in, and
14 complies with, all applicable Federal flood in15 surance programs, including demonstrating that
16 such community is participating in the National
17 Flood Insurance Program, and is not on proba18 tion, suspended, or withdrawn from such Pro19 gram;’’;
20 (iv) in subparagraph (B), by striking
21 ‘‘have’’ and inserting ‘‘beginning not later
22 than 2 years after the date on which the
23 Administrator publishes criteria for hazard
24 mitigation plans under paragraph (3),
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1 ernment with jurisdiction over the area in
2 which the dam is located has’’; and
3 (v) in subparagraph (C), by striking
4 ‘‘50-year period’’ and inserting ‘‘expected
5 life of the dam’’; and
6 (C) by adding at the end the following:
7 ‘‘(3) HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN CRITERIA.—
8 Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment
9 of this paragraph, the Administrator, in consultation
10 with the Board, shall publish criteria for hazard
11 mitigation plans required under paragraph (2)(B).’’.
HeadSet saysYes, and what happened to putting bills on the Internet for the public to view before Congress takes a vote?
They're out there. You just have to be a speed reader.
https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf
Lawmakers should all have to read and understand the laws they vote on.
They should read out the whole damned bill in front of Congress before voting for it.
Rb6d saysThey should read out the whole damned bill in front of Congress before voting for it.
Yes. If this was done, imagine how much shorter the bills would be, and how fewer bills would exist?
What does some dam on some reservation that mandates flood insurance have to do with a covid stimulus?95% probably has nothing more to do with COVID other than the name in the title. Classic example of pork.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pandemic-relief-payments-congress-voting-early-week-mnuchin/story?id=74842477
Any sane person does not sign what they have not read and understands FULLY.