[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[N. Miller]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:49:55 -0600, "Jonathan C. Patschke"
<jp at celestrion.net> said:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > Yup.  And Congress was intentionally not allowed time to read it before
> > they voted on it.
> 
> Non-sequitur.
> 
> Anyone who didn't read it should've entered "Present, but not voting" as
> their vote.

But many, many times, there are voice votes on critical issues where
a "recorded" vote is refused by the leader of the House or Senate.  
This is what happened on the >10-round mag ban (and the recent
renewal).  If the vote is not recorded, Congress-critters can say 
they voted whatever way is politically expedient when they are 
asked how they voted.  It also allows any "pet" issue the leaders
want to shove through to be passed in spite of not having a majority.

My belief is that all votes should be recorded votes.

The things that go on in our Congress are scary--it's no wonder 
everyone cheered in Mars Attacks when "they killed Congress".

=Nadine=
-- 
  N. Miller
  vraptor at promessage.com