Bill: Rejected Congressional Transparency Report Repair Act.

[ReinausPrinzzip]

A
BILL
To

create more transparency in the congress.

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the "Congressional Transparency Report Repair Act.”.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Bill was authored by Representative ReinausPrinzzip.
(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by representative 1950minecrafter.

2 - Reasons
(1)More transparency in Congress helps people understand it and makes it easier for them to decide on a candidate in the next election.
(2) At the moment its not a mandatory to show in the congressional transparency report how the representatives and senators voted, so the speakership could just not show it in the report if they would like to do so, this shall be changed with this bill.

3 - Introduction of a requirement to show how the representatives and senators voted

(1) In its congressional transparency report, the Congress must clearly show which bills were rejected, adopted or vetoed, and clearly show how the representatives and senators voted on them.

(2) Responsible for this task are the Congress Leaders, consisting of: Speaker of the House, Deputy Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore.

 

[218218Consumer]

Nay - I'm on the verge of cutting bills out of Congressional Transparency Reports.

1. To my knowledge, no one actually uses them: I can't name a single person who prefers going through a transparency report to find votes on a specific bill as opposed to just looking through Acts of Congress.

2. Even if there were such a person, do we seriously have reason to believe transparency would be noticeably reduced if we stopped publishing these reports? More importantly, would the public be seriously hindered in their ability to hold their Congress accountable? I'd argue not. Polls are already public on all bills that are being voted on.

In summary, including bills in transparency reports is an extra step of work for the Office of the Presiding Officers that does very little for the sake of transparency.

 

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nay - tedious administration work