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Originally Posted by kane
While the lame duck congress is often abused by the party in power (especially if they are about to lose that power in Jan.) I'm not sure what else you can do. You could have it so that the election is held and if you lose you are gone the next day and the winner takes over. The problem with that is that there would be not a lame duck congress, but a congress incapable of doing anything. When you get elected to the house or senate it takes a little time to make the transition. You have to hire a staff, deal with any family issues you may have while you live a large portion of the year in D.C and then just get the rules, regulations and practices down.
So if the losers were just thrown out the day after, the question is how long wold it be before the winners were actually in place and ready to work?
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Something needs to be done, I think the best approach would be only emergency bills get up for a vote, but they won't follow that either, like when they passed the pay as you go, then declared everything they wanted after that an emergency.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/0...-duck-sessions
I join with all Americans who dream of a day when Washington is broken enough to see a Congress rigged to prevent any more "progress." But the trouble with lame-duck sessions happens to be the opposite. It is one thing to be abused by democracy and quite another to be abused by a bunch of rejected, disgruntled and disconnected politicians.
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that