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Comprehensive mistakes

11/15/2010
John Boehner deserves applause for a mostly overlooked change he has promised to make as speaker of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress. In a Nov. 5 article in the Wall Street Journal, the Ohio Republican wrote, "The next speaker should put an end to so-called comprehensive bills with thousands of pages of legislative text that make it easy to hide spending projects and job-killing policies." His hope is proper for the reason he cites and more.Comprehensive bills, agglomerations of loosely connected initiatives, do give lawmakers the chance to sneak political favors into law. The worst of them are too long and cumbersome for most people, including lawmakers, to re...
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