The Miami Herald has an excellent editorial today on the lack of progress on election reform.
Back in January, when the snow was still fresh on the ground and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal was exploding all over Washington, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert named House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier, R-Calif., to be his point man on the important matter of ethics reform. ''We want to deal with this issue and get it behind us as quickly as possible,'' huffed Rep. Dreier. Never mind.
As Congress prepares to leave Washington for the traditional August recess, there is no better example of a critical issue that has not been resolved than the failure to enact meaningful lobbying and ethics reform. Deadlines have been missed, promises of reform have fallen flat, and there is nothing to show the electorate. When it comes to fixing the way it does business, Congress has been sadly incorrigible.
Senator John McCain has described ethics reform in this Congress as "The great disappearing act." Indeed, it has disappeared off the list of priorities of many politicians, and we can only hope that it'll be high on the list of concerns of voters this November.
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