>Isn't there a group in Congress that studies the effects of laws before they are signed off on?
Yes, they are called lobbyists ...
Is that only in England?
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A television ad in which the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and a former speaker, Newt Gingrich, warn about the dangers of climate change may violate federal election law, according to two campaign finance lawyers.
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>>Lawyers said the rules apply, regardless of whether the ads are intended to aid the campaign. “The reformers including Speaker Pelosi insisted on this blanket prohibition,” Mr. Baran said. “Well-meaning ads still violate the statute.”
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>>“Pelosi has been a big cheerleader of all of this,” Mr. Bopp added. “I’ve been arguing that these rules were going to entangle a member of Congress when they’re simply doing their job working with a nonprofit group. Well, here it is.”
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>>Mr. Gore’s group and Ms. Pelosi may soon find themselves adopting arguments conservatives have long made against the federal rules. “The only defense has got to be that it’s unconstitutional,” Mr. Baran said.>>
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http://nysun.com/news/national/lawyers-say-ad-featuring-pelosi-may-violate-election-law>>
>>Hopefully this will lead to the reversal of the incumbent-friendly anti-speech campaign finance laws. I won't hold my breath.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
