Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
It's a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.
I think if you took a secret ballot in the Senate and House, you'd get a majority of Republicans joining on to those libertarian concerns. But the majority of Republicans in both houses see themselves more as field soldiers in the president's army than as independent actors in an independent branch of government. ... That group is very reluctant to challenge their president and to do so in a way that gives Democrats a political issue.
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