POLL: 83% Say Congress Should Post Bills Online For All To Read Before Voting On Them

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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds only six percent (6%) of voters disagree with this approach while 10% are not sure.

Of those who favor posting congressional bills in their final form on the Internet, 64% say they should be available to the public two weeks or more before Congress votes and 29% favor posting bills one week before a vote. Just four percent (4%) think three days before a congressional vote is soon enough. [which is the current 72-hours proposal - good enough for three percent of us]

Here there is no partisan disagreement: eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans, 76% of Democrats and 92% of voters not affiliated with either party favor such postings. [but it won't be done anyway]

Right now, Republicans in the House are trying to force a vote on a measure that would require that pending bills be posted online for three days before that chamber votes on them.

Democrat party leaders are fighting the bill which they view as a GOP 'delaying tactic', despite these results suggesting that an overwhelming majority of voters consider such procedures as little more than common sense.

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