As Michael Barone has noted, a new Rasmussen poll indicates that 83 percent of voters want legislation to be posted online for the public to read before it receives a vote. Only 6 percent oppose the idea.

There is already a resolution to change House rules in order to require such transparency, proposed by Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore. The resolution would require that legislation be available online for the public for 72 hours before the House considers it. Walden started a discharge petition last week in order to bring it to the House floor over the objections of the House Democratic leadership.