Politico.com just published an article Read the bill? It might not help basically bemoaning the fact that the bills are complicated and arguing that it may not be an efficient use of time for legislators.

We live in the most technologically advanced country in the world and yet our congress (and government) for that matter still doesn’t know how to use readily available technologies!

How about WIKIs or online bills? Not only could these methods allow easy cross-linking within documents and other bills – but more importantly – like I argued here – with wikis you could track who made the changes and subscribe to them too! Imagine thousands of people being able to keep tabs on the latest sausage coming out of congress! If legislators don’t want to do their job, I’m sure there are plenty of Americans that would be happy to do it for them and hold them accountable.

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