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Old 10-02-2009, 07:19 PM   #2
jinx
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
I work at a law firm. It's been a while because I'm in a managerial position now, but I've had to read the US Code and read laws as passed and go back to the Code to try to piece together what they mean. It's painfully fucking slow and tedious and you are never really sure that you got it right.

In my experience, Redux is correct on this point.

There are a lot of lawyers in congress, and unless you expect every one of them to be a lawyer, you shouldn't expect them to be reading the bills they are voting on.

Then they're doing it wrong. Can't be by the people, for the people, if the average person can't understand it.
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