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I just read the Larkin-Riley (LR) bills. Our congress essentially passes diff-patches rather to existing text. This makes the Bills difficult to read.

The use of quotation marks in these patches would make any computer programming tool barf - Congressional bills sometimes use semicolons to end a sequence started with a quotation mark.

This sloppy form of patching existing laws is an invitation to ambiguity and mistake.

Good drafting would simply replace entire textual blocks rather.

Even better if Congress were to use a tool like git and propose amendments as pull requests. Then we would have a much clearer view of text before and after the proposed amendment and we would always have a way to see the latest amended version.

By-the-way, the proposed Larkin-Riley Bill (Senate Bill 5) pretty much shoots the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of our Constitution in the head and abandons due process even more than when we sent Japanese (including US citizens) to concentration camps in WW-II.

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