A poster at the American Thinker blog has just come up with the best idea I have heard in a long time--a new law which applies the principles of Sarbanes-Oxley to Congress. The post further states:
On the other hand, Congress regularly passes budgets and legislation of increasing depth and complexity, often prepared in haste at the eleventh hour -- obviously without even reading what they are voting on.
We want legislation requiring each solon under penalty of perjury to swear that he/she has read every word of any Bill before casting a vote on it.
Of course, it's not a perfect solution. The Speaker of the House just announced that each month of delay in passage of the stimulus porkapalooza cost 500 million US jobs, and in the face of such patent innumeracy it might be argued that an acknowledgement that she read the Bill is no assurance that she can understand it; but nevertheless it's a start."
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