SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Mia Love is renewing her efforts to increase congressional transparency through single-subject bills with clear titles.
The Utah Republican introduced the bill last year to curb the practice of passing complicated, multifaceted bills or attaching unrelated items to crucial appropriations bills.
Love’s goal has been to force legislation to pass or fail on its own merits, while increasing the transparency of policymaking.
The bill reflects similar policy in 42 states, including Utah, which require legislation passed at the state level to follow this method of simplicity and transparency with one subject and an accurate title to reflect the proposed policy.
Attaching extra items to last-minute bills causes problems, Love said.
“It puts members in the position to vote for something that they said they would never vote for that is attached to something that they promised they always would vote for,” she said Thursday on KSL Newsradio’s “The Doug Wright Show.”
Love said complicated bills contribute greatly to the growth of the national debt and decrease transparency.
“There are all these projects that are having to be put on to must-pass legislation in order to get a certain bill through,” she said. “There are tons of bills in Congress that would never stand on their own.”
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FILE – Rep. Mia Love at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. Love is renewing her efforts to increase congressional transparency through single-subject bills with clear titles.
Now there’s a little lady who’s worth her salt. There is nothing more frustrating than a bill that has something totally unrelated attached to it. Otherwise good bills will be shot down due to unrelated crap that has been attached. I wish her the best of luck.
Ditto to that. In fact, double ditto to that. You go Mia!