Reform
“Congress acts as if it is constitutionally prohibited from doing three things: reading the laws they propose, understanding the laws they propose, and living under the laws they propose.”
According to a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 68 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing. This is because many in Congress aren’t doing their job at all.
When members of Congress can get mortgages that you and I would not qualify for from the very people they are supposed to regulate, one can better understand why the financial markets collapsed.
When Congress can pass a law interfering with your relationship with your doctor while exempting themselves from that law, one can better understand why they feel they shouldn’t have to read the laws they propose.
Today pork barrel spending and vote buying are common practices that have only exacerbated the reckless spending in Washington. We must fundamentally change the way Congress does business by demanding transparency into the legislative process. If a member of Congress feels that his or her pet project should be funded by the American taxpayers, then let’s make them justify that spending in an open and transparent way. The days of trading votes for spending, stuffing bills with hidden legislation, and ramrodding laws through Congress in the dead of night before anyone can read them must come to an end.
As your next United States Congressman, I will work hard to reform the way Congress does business so that the American people will begin to trust their government to govern in the interest of the people, all of the people, not just those with the right "connections".
My focus is on a government that serves the people, not the other way around.
According to a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 68 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing. This is because many in Congress aren’t doing their job at all.
When members of Congress can get mortgages that you and I would not qualify for from the very people they are supposed to regulate, one can better understand why the financial markets collapsed.
When Congress can pass a law interfering with your relationship with your doctor while exempting themselves from that law, one can better understand why they feel they shouldn’t have to read the laws they propose.
Today pork barrel spending and vote buying are common practices that have only exacerbated the reckless spending in Washington. We must fundamentally change the way Congress does business by demanding transparency into the legislative process. If a member of Congress feels that his or her pet project should be funded by the American taxpayers, then let’s make them justify that spending in an open and transparent way. The days of trading votes for spending, stuffing bills with hidden legislation, and ramrodding laws through Congress in the dead of night before anyone can read them must come to an end.
As your next United States Congressman, I will work hard to reform the way Congress does business so that the American people will begin to trust their government to govern in the interest of the people, all of the people, not just those with the right "connections".
My focus is on a government that serves the people, not the other way around.
