PETITION TO REDRESS GRIEVANCE

TITLE: PETITION To REDRESS UNINTELLIGIBLE LEGISLATION

To: U.S. CONGRESS, ALL FEDERAL LEGISLATORS, BOTH HOUSES SOURCE ELEMENTS Of THIS SPECIFIC GRIEVANCE: (document the top half dozen causes of Citizen dissatisfaction - - keep
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Congressional Legislation has a history of getting longer and more complex. This renders impossible that the U.S. Citizen can fulfill the Constitutional vision of maintaining a governance structure in which the ultimate governing power is invested in the Citizen. In this situation, the Citizen has inadequate time to be reasonably informed on Government intentions. [NOTE 1] The escalating number of legislative provisions passed by Congress has adverse impact on Citizens due to: the demonstrable lack of legislative prioritization and the inability of individual Legislators to pay attention to the details of each piece of legislation. Moreover, the process complexity drains Congresss attention from other matters, such as following up on prior authorized Programs. Congressional Leaders comments show that even the Citizens Representatives have little knowledge of critical legislative specifics. Often, details are not incorporated into final legislative products, but are relegated to unelected Regulators. Thus the Citizens are not even in a position to know their Representatives position on any legislative detail. [NOTE 2] Legislative bills are often not available at a reasonable time before a final vote is to be taken. This prevents the interested Citizen from communicating a well-informed view to his Representative and/or express any modifications to the legislation recommended to the Legislator by the Citizen. [NOTE 3] If Legislation is passed by voice vote, Citizens are often ill-informed concerning how their Legislator actually voted. Moreover, even for recorded votes, understanding the vote rationale used by their elected Representative is not readily available to the Citizen. Accordingly, in the next relevant election, the Citizens vote often has insufficient insight regarding the incumbents beliefs.

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THEREFORE, IN ACCORD WITH OUR 1st AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, THE FOLLOWING CORRECTIVE ACTIONS ARE SOUGHT FROM YOU BY THE CITIZENS SUBMITTING THIS FORMAL PETITION: (document 3-4
specific actions requested that will rectify this 1st Amendment grievance - - keep each statement to less than 80 words) I. GENERAL CORRECTIVE ACTION SOUGHT: ACTIONS THROUGH A COMBINATION OF NEW LEGISLATION AND/OR NEW CONGRESSIONAL RULES THAT REQUIRE A 2/3 MAJORITY FOR REVISION BY FUTURE CONGRESSES. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR ACTIONS I & II TO ACCOMPLISH: Require that together, both Houses of Congress jointly approve no more than 150 pieces of legislation in 1
any given Congressional session. Up to 10 additional pieces of legislation, can be subsequently approved upon a 2/3 majority vote for each additional piece. Moreover, of the total 150 (or up to 160) pieces of legislation authorized, no more than 5 shall exceed a total word limit of 7,500. The 5 larger pieces of legislation shall not exceed more that 15,000 words each. Require that each House of Congress, must pre-publish to a place in the formal Congressional Proceedings, a verbatim wordage of every bill for which a vote is upcoming. Publication must be publicly recorded at least 240 hours prior to the final vote. Require a signed assertion, for every final legislative vote by every voting Legislator: Ive personally read and understand this legislation and its requirements. I am strongly convinced that this legislation is in accord with the U.S. Constitution. I have read authoritative economic analysis as to the legislative impact on the National budget and debt.

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Require that every Legislator, for every bill upon which he casts a final vote (recorded or voice vote) sends an email to his constituents and/or publishes the rationale describing why he voted for approval or rejection of the legislation. This rationale shall be no longer than 250 words.

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