THE CLEAN BILL ACT
Have you ever noticed how much bad legislation we get with each piece of good legislation? This is the current way of politicking the legislative process called earmarking or pork. A piece of legislation is introduced, but lots of pork gets piggybacked onto it in the politicking process to get people to agree to vote for it. Most of this added pork would never have gotten through on its own.
I will only sign clean bills, a piece of legislation that stands by itself. For example a bill to increase support for our troops could only contain support for our troops. It could not contain money for pet projects as they did with the emergency war funding bill.
First it eliminates a lot of bad legislation. Next it holds law makers specifically accountable for their actions. Currently you hear of some politician that voted for something several times and voted against it several times and is being criticized for his or her position on the subject. Under this current process, it is extremely hard to hold law makers accountable. I'm calling this the Clean Bill Act.
BETTER REPRESENTATION
Currently 435 US Representatives represent about 300 million Americans. This works out to about one representative for every 690,000 US citizens. There are thousands of lobbyists registered in Washington, DC. Lobbyists meet regularly with "our" representatives, but the average American citizen has never met "their" representative.
My recommendation would be that Senators and Representatives still draft clean bills as described above, but the bills would be voted on by elected officials to include state governors, senators, and representatives, county board members, and city, township, and village board members.
When a clean bill comes up for a vote, the city, township, and village boards would vote and present the results to their county boards. The county boards would add their votes and present the results to their US Representative. The state senators and representatives would vote and the state governor would present the results along with their vote to one of their US Senators. The US Senators and Representatives would present the results along with their votes during the voting process. The end result would be several thousand Americans voting on each bill and it would be virtually impossible for lobbyists to influence the vote.