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They do. Type up a bill and mail it to your Congresspeople.

I don't see how the medium changes proposing laws.

I think the difference is that with a PR it's public knowledge if the government responds/acknowledges/denies the request. It's also easier to type a bill and email it rather than use snail mail (I'm assuming that's what you meant).

You could e-mail a bill you wrote to your Congressman right now. Congress may be out of touch, but they do have e-mail.

The transparency angle is interesting, but I still don't think anything would change. Pull requests would be ignored like petitions, or receive canned responses like letters.

The primary problem here is not technological.

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