Resolution To Limit Complexity of Bills

To help with transparency, to mitigate the potential of more government shutdowns from occurring, and to be sure that items are not snuck into law, it would behoove our national government to focus on one thing at a time and for bills to be drafted in a concise manner.

The following is a draft of a resolution that I would introduce to congress, if elected: 

Whereas complex bills with multiple subjects (hereafter referred to as omnibus bills) have stymied congressional activity;

Whereas omnibus bills tend to include such a multitude of pages to where congressional members do not have a considerate amount of time, after the full language of a bill has been introduced to Congress, (outside of the respective committees where the respective bills originate), to review all of the language of the bills before casting a vote in favor or in opposition of said bills;

Whereas omnibus bills tend to include requests for the appropriation of funds from the U.S Treasury which only benefit a single state, and so should not be considered by the national Congress;

Whereas omnibus bills often include items of conflicting interests, and so would more appropriately be considered separately;

Whereas, at the time of the introduction of this resolution, forty-one state constitutions include measures to limit bills to one subject;

May it be resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America that no bill shall contain more than one subject, including appropriation bills and bills for revision or codification of statutes. This provision of shall be liberally construed to effectuate the acts of the legislature.