Is This A Good Talking Point? Carper Won't Read Health Care Bill Because It's Too Confusing

[masuki bance]

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Senator Thomas Carper- Delaware

[smitty]

1. Sadly, he's not alone, I'd wager very few in Congress have

read it. Says a lot about the dolts who govern us.

[niceypoo]

2. They are setting things up so they can say, 'Nobody read the bill!!'

Obviously they dont give a shit at all about healthcare

[kristopher]

3. He's right.I haven't had a lot of use for Carper

And I'd like to see him ousted as my Senator BUT, legislative language is a difficult thing to wade through- it isn't something that you read, it is something that requires sentence by sentence review to make any sense of at all. The job of ensuring that the legislative language matches the "plain English version" Carper speaks of belongs to committee member's staff. By dividing the job up among staff that specializes in particular policy issues, it gets done expeditiously and properly. A bill like this would take months for one person who isn't an expert on all the legal-eze to accomplish.

[mazzarro]

4. May I inquire

Why are legislations not written in plane language for all to understand?

[masuki bance]

6. Probably because very few of us are airline pilots. nt

[dhpgetsit]

5. Nobody read the Patriot Act before passing it.

But he should not have said it. It WILL be a RNC talking point.