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Re:It’s Time to Build by nerfhammer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @10:42PM (#22913044)
voters say they want that, but do they ever monitor the complexity of any particular bill and vote differently next time strictly because of it?
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Re:It’s Time to Build by vertak on Sunday April 19, 2020 @05:50PM (#22919083)
Doing this is very difficult and exhausting.

Several years ago I signed up to follow 3 politicians I cared about using this site https://www.govtrack.us/. Give it a try, and I think you'll see the deluge of laws, bills, and opinions is too much for a mere mortal mind with a 9-5.

I think this is why we talk about congresspersons' army of staffers and interns. You would not want a single person trying to deal with the complexity of all this information they need to have an informed opinion on in order to vote for/against.

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Re:It’s Time to Build by csallen on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:05PM (#22917581)
I misspoke. It's more likely that the vast majority of voters don't care about this issue, and in fact aren't even aware of it.
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