On tax cuts, the Trump administration worked with Republicans in Congress exclusively, and after eight or nine months finally put out a wish list (not a legislative draft, or even a fully-fleshed out plan).
Garran and his fellow staff aimed for a simple style of legislative drafting, a goal enabled by the fact that there was no pre-existing federal legislation on which their work would have to be based.
Although I'm glad to be called, I'm a decidedly B-list policy guy who has never played a big role in the sausage factory of actual legislative drafting and know only a handful of senators personally.
Had this legislation not been rushed through in a day, perhaps the embarrassingly-poor legislative drafting discussed above could have been avoided.
"Sometimes legislators look at our legislation and then go to their legislative drafting shop".
It would keep legislative drafting files under wraps, create a new "deliberative materials" exemption in the open records law that would exempt records at all levels of government, and give the legislature an easy way to hide even more records from disclosure in the future.
The coalition decided on a two-pronged tactical approach on one front, it offered to assist the Senator's legislative drafting team in finalizing the legal language for a revised Bill, and by doing so, gained entrance into the internal process within the Legislature, enabling it to monitor the bill's progress.
At the committee's legislative drafting session on Tuesday, Representative Paul Kanjorski, the Pennsylvania Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, added the requirement of registration by offshore funds.
Bad legislative drafting rendered much of that money inaccessible.
Only the special interests have the resources and focus to track the process of legislative drafting.
