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Re: Should politicians be required by law to read the bill themselves before signing
As of right not it is not illegal for a politician to vote for a bill without first reading it. That would change if it was made illegal to vote for a bill without first reading it.
I sure some of the politicians who seemed to have a problem with reading bills would be the first ones to be interview or at least "coerced" into a interview.
1. Regarding your self-enforcing point, opponents already criticize people now for what they vote for so it wouldn't be any different.
As of right not it is not illegal for a politician to vote for a bill without first reading it. That would change if it was made illegal to vote for a bill without first reading it.
2. Regarding your political commentator point, a lot of elected officials don't get interviewed regularly by the press and if a question is about something obscure then the politician may have forgotten about it if it's just a trivial fact.
I sure some of the politicians who seemed to have a problem with reading bills would be the first ones to be interview or at least "coerced" into a interview.