They've passed bills that,
ˇ Ban members of Congress from accepting meals and air travel from
lobbyists and their corporate clients.
ˇ Disclose which senator or representative was earmarking which tax
dollars for which bridge to nowhere.
ˇ Keep legislators from doing what former House Majority Leader Tom
DeLay did: pressure lobbying firms and business associations to hire
people of one party and not the other.
ˇ Require lobbyists to disclose when they bundled many individual
campaign contributions into a single contribution large enough to
purchase a lawmaker's full attention.
This last provision is particularly important. The practice of
bundling checks explains why members of Congress are so willing to be
swayed by lobbyists (who tell lawmakers whatever their clients pay
them to say, regardless of the truth or public interest) rather than
by their constituents.
ˇStruck down immigration reform that had a provision within it that
would have eradicated the sovereignty of the United States of America
by the formation of the North American Union (Canada, America &
Mexico).
ˇCalled for the ceasing of sacrificing our troops as well as hundreds
of thousands of Muslims.
ˇAppropriated funds to the Department of Defense to arm troops, when
the President, playing politics, wouldn't.
That last one hit the troops hard.
ˇU.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act -
landmark legislation that will help change direction in Iraq, and
require the Iraqi people to take responsibility for their own country.
Well it's been a full bill, plenty of bitter partisan fights and all
in all I welcome the progress Democrats in Congress have made in 6
months.
Now then, I wonder why those PEW poll numbers were so low for
Congress. Hm.
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