Congress: two-thirds approval

No person should seek to have a government solve their personal problems. No government can create true equality of results, but only equality of opportunity!

The public has an extremely low approval of Congress. This could be changed within a few hours by Congress changing their own "rules" in the House and Senate. The new rules would be that one third of the members of the House, or Senate, (as applicable) could demand that legislation be removed from committees and put forward for a full debate and recorded roll call vote. No longer would one person be able to block the entire Congress from getting work done! To prevent either party from abusing this idea, and ramming laws through Congress, any proposed legislation so brought forward would require a two-thirds approval within that side of Congress.

Note: this idea should be consistent with the intent of the original US Constitution where only the President had veto power, and that could be overridden by a two-thirds vote of Congress. See Article I, Sections 5, Paragraph 2 and Section 7, Paragraph 2.

Thomas Fancher

Moses Lake