- May 22, 2005
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bump, since we're getting warmed up for the new year.
Has anyone an opinion / comments on:
Issue Papers 2013 Legislative Session
I stared at page #187
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Also:http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/pubs-current/current-senate-status-report.pdf
and: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/pubs-current/current-house-status-report.pdf
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bump, since we're getting warmed up for the new year.
Please call me directly if anyone needs help finding or reading legislation...I am happy to help in any way that I can and this is usually an easy one for me ( I've been doing it for years now)
410-490-2734 is my cell...I also do text. Please don't hesitate--- I really don't bite ( much)
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...With people taking notice of DC politics for the first time; and with people not as familiar with the purpose of DC politics; we end up within two different references. Perhaps it is valuable to reset the larger frames of reference and provide clarity.
Most people think when they vote for a federal politician -a House or Senate representative- they are voting for a person who will go to Washington DC and write or enact legislation. This is the old-fashioned “schoolhouse rock” perspective based on decades past. There is not a single person in congress writing legislation or laws.
In modern politics not a single member of the House of Representatives or Senator writes a law, or puts pen to paper to write out a legislative construct. This simply doesn’t happen.
Over the past several decades a system of constructing legislation has taken over Washington DC that more resembles a business operation than a legislative body. Here’s how it works right now...