How democracy works (reality version)

[ahousekeeper]

From an interview with the congressman John Conyers (Democrat, Michigan)

Joel Whitney: There is that moment in Fahrenheit 9/11 when you confessed to Michael Moore what I guess many of us not in Congress hadn't considered, that lawmakers don't read every bill that you vote on. Has the Bush Administration challenged you to rethink that a little?

Comments

[r_o_a]

there needs to be a Sarbanes-Oxley act-like thingy for lawmakers everywhere....but...prolly as usual "ne pomozhet"...people look at high-level stuff and that's it....

[ahousekeeper]

> Sarbanes-Oxley act-like thingy

What's that?

[anaid1708]

pain in the a**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act

[ahousekeeper]

10x

[avetik]

Americans say "devil is in details".
And that's exactly what's happened.

[ahousekeeper]

... happened and keeps happening all the time.