Single-Subject Bills
One of your Feb. 13 editorials called for the possibility of a constitutional amendment to make the line-item veto legal. Another editorial discussed a bill in the state Legislature that would require ballot initiatives be limited to a single subject.
Hello? So, why not combine both ideas and solve two problems at once? Congress can pass a law that states: one item per proposed bill, written in plain and simple English, please. No more federal road projects that also contain a line-item allocating money for honey bees. A road bill is a road bill; a bee bill is a bee bill. Period.
Such a change would also hold lawmakers clearly accountable for their votes on clearly understood bills.
Of course, because of voter apathy, we’ll see such a change in the way Congress does business when pork sprouts wings.
ANN CALHOUN
Los Osos
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