Fix Bills and Laws
There is actual legislation here, and it starts from citizens rather than from a wish list. Republican voters add the laws they care about here, and this community decides which ones come first.
- Generated from real problems. A citizen names the problem; the legislative language gets built from that.
- Prioritized by the community, by the same voting and collaboration as everything else here.
- A named bill beats a general statement. There will be specific standing bills this community cares about more than the rest. Those get named and tracked, so a candidate can be measured against a bill instead of a slogan.
- Partisan by design. That is the point of a party door. The non-partisan .io does not host law work, so this is where it happens.
Three different things get called "laws" here
- Problem laws — the enacted instruments that carry a problem, and the recorded votes that put them there.
- Good laws — repairs somebody has already filed: passed, defeated, or never allowed a vote. Each one records who blocked it.
- Fix bills — ours. Language a member could file tomorrow, that nobody has filed yet.
Keeping them apart matters: the most damaging thing you can do is mistake a law we document as harmful for a bill we propose. They are opposites, and one of them makes claims about how living legislators voted.
In this area
- Adding the Laws This Community Cares About — Republican voters add and shape the laws that matter to them.
- Bills That Matter Most to Republicans — A concrete bill is a better test of a candidate than a general statement.
Where this sits
This is one area of We The Citizens R, the Republican front door at WeCitizensR.com. It is written for Republican voters, and nothing on the other three doors decides what belongs here.
Source: marketing/messaging/republicans.md §8.0.