May 22, 2007

Immigration bill: secret preparation, bogus rush.

Yet the Senate is about to begin a forced-march to debate and vote on legislation that no one — other than a few staffers who wrote it in secret — has read. This is no way to legislate.

The strategy seems to be to hide the legislation for as long as possible, then stage a full-court press to convince the Senate, and the public, that this bill is a good deal.
"The Devil Is in the Details." By Matthew Spalding, NationalReviewOnline, 5/21/07 (emphasis added).

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