Limit Bill Size

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House Speaker Boehner:
Senate Majority Leader Reid:

Dear Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid,
A Political Associate has what I believe they valuable suggestion; Limit the Size of Bills. Here's what he has to say:

"Most Americans are appalled by the intrusion of the Federal Government into our private and business lives.  Obamacare and Dodd-Frank are only two recent examples. The fault lies principally with the Congress.
     As you know, each bill that becomes law contains a set of authorities.  These are used by the bureaucracies to promulgate the rules that will define the law and its enforcement.  It is no secret that each bureaucracy defines these authorities broadly to increase their power.  Therein lies the rub.  The problem lies in the size and scope of each bill.  For Obamacare, thousands of pages of rules have been published in the Federal Register and the rule making continues with no end in sight.  The same holds true for Dodd-Frank.
    My serious recommendation is that Congress change its rules to limit the size of each bill to about two hundred pages including amendments.  Then the set of authorities would be limited to the specific intent of the bill.  Perhaps even more important, it would raise the probability that members of Congress might actually read and understand the legislation they are voting on.
     Secondly, over our history, our federal laws have become encrusted with laws that have no continuing purpose or have been interpreted by the bureaucracies far beyond their original intent.  I would be happy to cite numerous examples.  Therefore, my second recommendation is that the Congress vote to repeal all laws over fifty years old.  Obviously, the Congress would act to exempt specifically those laws that still had meaning and purpose.  This would mean that the Congress would spend a significant portion of their time in session revising and reconstructing the foundation of our federal legal system.  It is very badly needed".