how many times do people have to tell you, nathan newman, what you call the legislative process does NOT work. it's highly contrived so that only certain people and special interests have access and succeed. the grass roots are eliminated from the process. reading your rants about how this closed system "works" leads nowhere.
for example, even when a group with as much "curb appeal" as the 9/11 families do everything they could to lobby congress over a protracted period of time, the nation still got a highly manipulated, highly contrived set of "bipartisan hearings" which eliminated most of the relevant evidence and left the families and the nation with nothing constructive -- precisely what the politicians and the whitehouse wanted. gary hart and warren rudman, who issued a report on national security before 9/11 which would have damned the shrub group, weren't even called upon to testify. http://www.nssg.gov/
you might have something to offer if you could get your consciousness out of closed ended lectures about what you term "legislative process," and cheap ad hominem argument which begs the question against reasonable people who disagree with you.
R
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