Is This Anything? 5
A kinda wild fact about modern government is that (often) lawmakers don't read the bills they pass.
One thing I think would be fun is if every bill came with a short multiple-choice quiz, and lawmakers had to answer the quiz before they voted. There's a version of this where your vote doesn't count unless you answer the quiz correctly, but there's another where your vote counts either way but your answers to the quiz are revealed alongside the vote-tally, so we find out that a bill passed with whatever majority but that most of the legislators thought it said something else.
Another wild thing about modern lawmaking is that
1) lawmakers increasingly vote on strict party lines, but
2) they have to be physically present for those votes anyway.
Which gives this bizarre situation where lawmakers have to show up at 3am sometimes to register a physical vote, or laws sometimes pass/fail because of illness from legislators, despite a close-to-100% certainty from everyone on how that legislator would have voted. I don't know what to say about this, I just think it's interesting.
We desperately need a phrase like "bless you", but for coughs.