THE CONGRESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2017?


 


 


I had a thought some time ago about how to maximize our "investment" in Congress. Their current "work week" is normally three consecutive days each week and the travel bill for each of them is astronomical. How about we connect the office of each senator and representative to the Capitol clerk's office electronically, on the model of on-line business meetings?  That way, the members of Congress can remain in their districts most of the year, participating, debating, arguing, and voting electronically right from their home offices, thus reducing travel time and expense, expanding the work week to 5 days a week, and getting a helluva lot more work done while spending a helluva lot less taxpayer money!  Congress could then meet in Washington as necessary, for example, for State of the Union messages, inaugurations, swearing-in of new members, joint sessions, etc. This would have the ancillary benefit of significantly reducing direct contact between our members of Congress and the jackals known as lobbyists, not to mention Ukrainians and Russians.

Safari Woman
ha - make them live among the people they are SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT - I doubt they could handle it - the hide in the swamp in DC where they can swim with the rest of the snakes 
  • July 20, 2017
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Joseph Ryan
It is a good idea and this is pretty much what the Founders planned for the Federal Government. If the federal Government did only what the Constitution granted it the power to do, Congress could meet for a few month between harvest time and planting time and be done.
  • July 21, 2017
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