Ironically, a lot of GOP donors are complaining about elements of the bill as written. =>https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/928644450984787969 …
Part of it is our system. Not designed to allow for fast legislating. Ocare took more than a year of diligent legislating, just as an IE of partisan big bill
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if you want a concrete example, the Patriot Act was introduced on Oct 23rd, 2001 & signed into law on Oct 26th. Declaration of War on Japan after Pearl Harbor passed both houses & was law in under 4 hours
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National security/war response not the same as domestic policy. Life and death urgency much different.
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Congress passed a law in under a week in response to the Terry Schiavo case, iirc, if you want a domestic example.
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Major policy is different.
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the 26th Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress & ratified by the states in under 6 months. is that different too or maybe is the problem with our office holders and not with "the system"?
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Maybe you got me there. But I'd say the exception proves the rule. How long did tax reform take last time, in 86?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Recovery_Tax_Act_of_1981 … Reagan's first tax cut took 3 weeks
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that's not true at all. we can legislate plenty fast when it suits us & we do. it doesn't suit the GOP to move fast on this, that's the issue. They could have passed a tax cut during last year's lame duck session & Trump could have signed it on day 1 if they'd wanted to
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Disagree. What can I say, big shock. But
@hughhewitt agrees with you.
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