GOP Rep. Mo Brooks says prime committee chairmanships cost a minimum of $1 million and are paid by special interest groups as “a quid pro quo” for favored legislation.
“I’m sure you are very much concerned about why our Congress is so unresponsive to the regular needs of American citizens,” Rep. Brooks told supporters. “Why some of these policies that come out are so bizarre, so unfair, so skewered against regular Jane and Joe Citizen. Special interest groups run Washington, and I don’t mean that metaphorically. I mean literally.”
In the House, special interest groups pay for chairmanships, and then there is quid pro quo. If you don’t do what they tell you to do, they won’t give you the money for the chairmanship.
This is why Congress doesn’t rise to the public policy challenges confronting the nation. And both parties do it.
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“We have the best Congress money can buy.” – Will Rogers
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“There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.” – Mark Twain
Our representatives should be barred from accepting any donations except from the constituents in their own districts/states.
says the guy that does not want to prosecute election criminality.
Yes, he kneels down to special interests which executed the coup.
The solution is simple, don’t vote for ANYONE taking Corporate Money. Vote for the little guys who actually need your support. Then find out who in BUYING politicians and boycott them. The Citizens United decision was insanity. Basically the Supreme Court ruled that corruption in Government was OK.
I don’t vote for politicians who take money from outside the State or take corporate donations. If you want your government to work for you, you will do the same thing. Otherwise, you will get the best Government High Tech and Corporations on Government Welfare can buy!
That would be ideal, except that the little guy who does not live in big money pockets, does not have enough money to compete with career politicians. So the little guys who campaign on mom & pop contributions continually loose out to the big money candidate who has a better chance of communicating with voters. Sadly, too many voters are not researching the candidates, just ticking the box next to who the party tells them to vote for….
ARREST THEM ALL!