Just Wondering wrote in
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On 8/23/2012 7:33 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Just Wondering wrote:

Your Senator was supposed to be the expert. That's what he was
elected for and was paid the big bucks for. You're basically saying
that your Senator, and perhaps all of them, surrendered
non-delegable duties to staff, and that it is an unelected nameless
bureaucratic staff who controls what bills are made into law. If
that's true, we need a couple of hundred impeachment proceedings.
"I don't rule Russia; ten thousand clerks rule Russia" - Peter the
Great.

It has always been thus.


By that, Peter the Great meant the "ten thousand clerks" handled the
nuts-and-bolts administration of the government. But those clerks did
not write the laws.

Come on. We elect a new rep every once in a while. You think he is
going to be an instant encyclopedic source of all law that pases by him?
He is charged (IMO) with directing the staff in what the electorate has
elected him to do, in a philosophy so to speak. Not the itty bitty
gritty details of writing law.

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Best regards
Han
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