Posted by HisHughness on 10/14/10 10:16pm
Msg #356857

This should interest a goodly number of you

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/obama-signs-perfectly-plain-law/?nl=us&emc=politicsemailemb2

Reply by Pat/IL on 10/14/10 11:42pm
Msg #356868

There's a Pay As You Go Act of 2010? n/m

Reply by Vince/KS on 10/15/10 7:07am
Msg #356878

Perhaps he'd sign such a law now in hope that people will forgive the multi-thousand page laws written in the last two years that no one could understand (or read). Or as Nancy Pelosi would say, we'll have to pass it to find out what's in it.

Reply by HisHughness on 10/15/10 8:08am
Msg #356880

Wouldn't matter, Vince. You wingnut conservatives would just vote "No" on it anyway -- assuming you could understand even a law written in one-syllable words.

Now you want to take this to the Just Politics forum, where your comment belonged in the first place?

Geez. Give it a rest.

Reply by C. Rivera Chicago Notary Services on 10/15/10 8:57am
Msg #356881

should've been put in JP perhaps??? n/m

Reply by JanetK_CA on 10/15/10 1:59pm
Msg #356945

The number of pages is a very misleading indicator, and imo, a pretty meaningless way of talking about the characteristics of a bill. If you look at the actual bill as written, each page is about one paragraph. It looks to be triple spaced, with wide margins so that every line is numbered and therefore easily referenced.

I've never worked in a law office, but have had occasion to look at legal documents from time to time and that seems to be typical to me. Plus, you have all the necessary references to other bills that may be impacted. (That's the stuff that makes my eyes roll back into my head... ) Also, I doubt that we'd find much different if we started counting pages of bills that go back farther than two years.

Hopefully this new law will start us moving more in a direction of making the darn things more understandable and more easy to read, but I'm not holding my breath.

This should all probably be on JP (and I have little interest in going there), so I'll stop here.