Twice Baked Lobbyist Reform??
After reading the above article and reviewing the mentioned opinions, I find the overall commentary disingenous. What strikes me as comical is that any new congressional leadership, Democrat or Republican, always find the time to announce ethics or some pseudo reform, reassuring their constituents and pretending their actions are actually accomplishing something. Just read the article and you'll realize that they don't even have the leadership or courage to get rid of the revolving door reform. To actually accomplish somethng they need to go to the heart of the actual problem, the often "too close" relationship between congressional members and lobbyists. Why is Mike Capuano's job considered thankless, when all he is doing is getting people to actually follow the rules and do the job that they're required. Congress should not need some ehtical reform to do their job, they should possess the ethics to do it without instruction.
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