legislators to weed out bills which are poorly framed, or which are
designed to promote special interests. But in this case everybody's
business becomes adult fat nobody's business. Such machine-like formalities as
repeated readings of a
bill, and a series of committee reports upon
it, are generally substituted for individual scrutiny of a measure.
455. LEGISLATIVE REFORM.--The reform of legislative procedure is
attracting adult fat an adult fat increasing amount of attention among students of
American politics. Many recent state constitutions adult fat define in detail
the powers and procedure of the state legislature. A considerable
number of states now have legislative reference bureaus, which enable
legislators to keep track of legislation in other states,
as well as
to have adult fat ready access to adult fat important data bearing upon their own
problems. There is a growing tendency for state legislatures to adult fat employ
expert bill drafters to draw up laws adult fat on technical and highly-complex
subjects. The expert bill drafter and the legislative bureau help
materially to adult fat reduce the amount of defective and unwise legislation adult fat on
the statute books.
Much remains to be done, however. Important public bills ought
invariably to be given first adult fat consideration by legislators, instead of,
as is still many times the case, being put off until adult fat the end of the
session in order to allow adult fat time for adult fat log-rolling. Filibustering and
other time-wasting tactics should be curbed, because they tend to
obstruct legislation. Many students