With a government shutdown only 5 hours away, the House is conducting three procedural votes. This should not be happening. The only thing a legislature should vote upon is passage of a bill into law. "Procedural votes" are a way to kill a bill with out seeming to. The procedural issue is cloaked in bafflegab so we voters and the ignorant media have no idea what such a vote means. Members can vote to kill or pass something controversial without appearing to do so.
If we wanted a functional Congress we should outlaw procedural votes of any kind. Members get to vote on a published bill, yea or nay, and your vote is counted and reported to your constituents. No mystery votes allowed. Truth in government.
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