How would you characterize the lawmaking process?
I would characterize it as long, drawn-out and frustrating on the people doing it while they're doing it and very satisfying if a bill becomes law.
Every time I read about the law-making process, I am always hit with how many steps there are, how incredibly long it can take and amazed at how anything ever gets done. But then I read about states that have passed bills allowing rapists visitation rights and I lose what little confidence I have in a lawmakers' perseverance that I've gathered from how long it takes to make a bill law and we are basically right back at square one in terms of my distrust of elected officials.
I understand why the process is so drawn-out in theory, you want a bill to be robust and worthy of becoming a law, you want it to go through the wringer, and get challenged by as many people as possible as a way of showing if it passes, it has the acceptance of the majority of people that represents others. I think it's a cultural inclination to have trouble wrapping my head around inefficiency when so much of American culture pushes efficiency.
I also imagine that dealing with that process often during the year must take a lot out of a person and give a huge boost when all that hard work has paid off.
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