Gabu
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« on: November 14, 2005, 01:48:12 AM » |
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Well, on one hand, I can't really see why allowing the President to introduce legislation is necessary, given that he can just get a senator to do something...
...but, on the other hand, I can't really see how it would particularly hurt. It's true that a president could potentially abuse this by introducing a huge deluge of bills to clog up the Senate's business, but so could a senator.
I will say, however, that I don't think any special preference should be given to presidential legislation. Even if we ignore the problem that has already been stated that senators could just get the president to introduce something, thereby having the legislation shoot to the front of the line, I really don't see how such a provision could help anything. There seem to be a lot more potential abuses of such a thing than what is made up for by its benefits.
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