Mandate all new laws and bills can only be a maximum of 3-5 pages, that's it. Is it really that stupid that all you need to do is limit the printer so that they can't flood you with paper trying to hide things?
This was brought on from the recent omnibus bill and if it's just because they flood the system late that they keep getting things through.
Take the bill's # of pages, divide by whatever arbitrary limit is imposed, and then they pass that many bills instead. This kind of thinking that you're somehow going to get politicians to act with our best interests at heart by coming up with rules or laws is ridiculous.
Imagine walking up to soddom and gamorrah and saying that you're pretty sure you can turn this all around by imposing some bureaucratic imposition on the length of the papers the politicians are writing.
So that I'm not misconstruing, say for the recent omnibus bill, since that's around a thousand pages, if the limit was 5 pages they'd have to pass it 200 times to get everything through?
Yes, and they would have no problems doing so.
The citizenry & journalists would make a bunch of articles about how wrong what they're doing is and no one likes it, and then they would just do it.
Just as it happens now.
Probably true but maybe we at least slow them down and inflict a kind of torture on them doing it.
Imagine having to vote 200 times just to pass one bill especially if you know there's one guy that would LOVE to fuck around for another payoff..
They don't have jobs that require their attention outside of congress. They would be more than happy to sit there and say "aye" for as long as it takes if what they are saying "aye" to is "I continue to have power" and "we run the money printer for what I want".
They would just stop televising these sessions, and just lie to us. You think you can use logic and bureaucracy to bind the actions of these people, it won't ever work, especially when we don't own the bureaucracy that would be needed to even try to put this imposition on them.
You seem to still be operating under some sort of reasoning like "I pay their (the politicians) salary! (and thus have some sort of control/power/sovereignty)". It's a nonsense frame to exist within, IMO.