It's just one example of the increasing breakdown of any rules in the Congress.
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This is a classic example of why the ethics rules have to be reformed. The Scotland trip was a trip to play golf, pure and simple, and private interests should not be allowed to finance those kinds of trips and gain influence with members in return.Fred Wertheimer
You have parties going on all the time. You have members, when they are thrown in their honor in effect hosting their own huge expensive events, and you have corporations and special interests picking up the tab and getting the favoritism and the relationship with the members of Congress as a result.
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The vice president may face a little embarrassment, but I don't think he will face any practical impact, ... if Gore didn't want to live by that statement, he shouldn't have made it.
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Fred Wertheimer, a longtime advocate for campaign finance reform, called DeLay the king of a Washington-lobbyist, influence-money approach for governing America. ... pay-to-play philosophy.
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It's quite clear that the public fully understands what is going on in Washington -- and they adamantly oppose it.
Fred Wertheimer
Members of Congress get to play King or Queen for a day. Special interest groups get to spend large undisclosed amounts of money to benefit members critical to their interests. Citizens get the short end of the stick.
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