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Listen to these people talking like the banks and financial services institutions are totally responsible for this mess.
I will tell you exactly who is responsible for this. The entire Republican Congress, the Republican Senate and Bill Clinton for allowing the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999 that allowed all of this to happen.
This is a result of allowing the credit card lobby to promote their god damn propoganda into turning the credit card industry into loan sharking programs.
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McCain + Earmarks = $0
Clinton + Earmarks = $300 million!
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I was just pointing out something that, in my view, would improve the legitimacy of American democracy. We first have to define objectives before trying to get something passed. Really, that's way ahead of the conversation.
Re-circumvention, people try to circumvent laws all the time but that doesn't argue for their non-passage. Besides, I think it would be easily enforced by the FBI, for instance, like in ABSCAM or any other sting type operation.
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Your idea and thinking is great. We certainly need as much transparency as possible.
However, in my view, Congress would never pass such a law. Most lobbying involves a member's staff and not the member. The staff would have to carry portable recording devices when they are at lunch, receptions, etc.
Staffers on the Hill are way overworked and underpaid as it is (I know firsthand). Even if such a law could pass, I think they'd find a way to circumvent it.
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Well, I guess a law could be passed saying that every single conversation a representative has which has anything to do with his office must be recorded. An exception for wives could be included. We certainly have the technology to make such recordings. Do you see a difficulty with this?
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Epic878787,
The most effective kind of lobbying often consists of friends and former colleagues stopping by the Congressional offices where they once worked to say hi and maybe have lunch. How would you put their conversations in the public record?
Paul Sampson
Executive Director
UnderstandingPolitics(dot)org
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Hilary Clinton is scum. Do we really want another Clinton in the white house?
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concerned00citizen 3 years ago 3
Corporations and foreigners shouldn't be allowed to lobby congress and all lobbying should be in the public record(every word). Representatives are supposed to represent voters not corporations or foreigners. America is an illegitimate democracy because of this and many other reasons.
Epic878787 3 years ago