Remember this when you go to the polls this November:
Just two weeks after House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledged to
pass far-reaching changes to the rules of lobbying on Capitol Hill, House
Republican members pushed back hard against those proposals yesterday,
charging that their leaders are overreacting to a growing corruption
scandal.In a tense, 3 1/2 -hour closed-door session, many Republicans challenged
virtually every element of the leadership’s proposal, from a blanket ban on
privately funded travel to stricter limits on gifts to an end to gym
privileges for lawmakers-turned-lobbyists. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), a
veteran conservative who is seeking a top leadership post, scoffed that
Congress knows how to do just two things well — nothing and overreact,
according to witnesses.
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What it is boiling down to is the Republican’s only act like they care about
the corruption Abramoff exposed. Instead they are more worried about money and
gifts than the American people. They don’t want reform. They want to give an
illusion to the American people that they want it, but in fact they are to
greedy to go after it. They just love to lie to the American people.