Time to strike with a Republican transparency and ethics agenda

for "transparency"during the last eight years?  The House Ethics Committee was disbanded by the GOP, and VP Cheney won't even tell us where he is, much less who he is meeting with or what they are talking about..  The phrase "Republican transparency and ethics agenda" is beyond parody.

Not saying that the Democrats are any better, but this is not a winning theme as long as the same bunch of crooks run the GOP.

OT: your spelling.  "Through that in."  The word is "throw."  This example gives me, a former magazine editor, no hope for the education of our children in their native language.  Further common insults to English as She is Spoke are found in the confusion over homonyms:

"They're"= "they are"

"Their" = "of or belonging to them"

"There" = "that place"

"Your" = "of or belonging to you"

"You're" = "you are"

"Yore" = "a long time ago"

"Rein" = Noun: "a means of control"  Verb (followed by "in"): to bring something under control

"Reign" = noun: "the period of time during which a throne is occupied"  Verb = "to rule absolutely."

Your first proposal - that individuals be enabled to submit ethics complaints and that the various ethics committees have to officially reject these complaints (or, presumeably. accept them) hasn't a chance in hell.

First, it is a "Nutter's Charter" - every partisan crank in the United States will start filiing ethics complaints for everything under the sun against every Congressman or Senator on the opposite side of his pet issue. Therefore, it would require an enormous staff to handle the complaints, and vast amounts of committee time to hand out the "official" rejections. I think our elected officials have got better things to do with their time.

Second, it guarantees that no Congressman or Senator will willingly serve on these committees. Not just becasue of the time problem, but also becasue this proposal is also an Opposition Soundbite Generator. Here's the scenario: There is an election coming up. You are targeting Congressman X, who sits on or chairs one of these committees. You get someone to file a bogus ethics complaint against someone who is a bogeyman in your district - for example, Barney Frank. The committe rejects the nonsense complaint. And, bingo, you've got your soundbite: Congressman X voted against holding Barney Frank  responsible for his ethics violations.

Second, I fail to see why all or small donors should have to have their privacy violated. The purpose of disclosures is to shine a light on the nexus between donations and influence. If there is a candidate I like and I want to send him a bucks to encourage him to keep up the good work, I'm not seeking a favor from him and I'm not gaining any influence over him. But if I know that my name and contact details are going to end up on a website somewhere, I probably won't make the donation. Your proposal is an unwelcome crimp on my political liberty.

And, finally, your three closing statements indicate that you aren't actually interested in ethics reform at all, you just want some stunts to cause trouble for the opposition. This is the worst possible stance to take. Ethics reform should be about, you know, ethics - not just having a snit about being the party out of power. The electorate isn't completely stupid.

Members should be required to disclose every meeting with a lobbyist including the agenda and basic nature of the meeting. They don't have to disclose the minutes of the meeting perhaps but a basic overview of the the purpose of the meeting is would inform voters who is weighing in on any given issue facing the congress.

Lobbyists are already required to register as lobbyists. It would be a small step for members to agree to disclose every meeting they take with a lobbyist. Make the process transparent.

Not only do Americans have a constitutional right to petition their elected representatives, lobbyists are essential to the functioning of the federal government.  Without lobbyists, representatives would have absolutely no understanding of business needs, even the well-intentioned representatives.  Do you think they know about computer programming?  Or the specifics of large-scale engineering and industrial projects?  Supply-chain issues?  International competition (the real kind, not the kind your college professor told you about)? 

Depending on the individual is risky, see recent news reports (and even in the pape4rs, and on TV, too!).

Trying to pass laws to control others results in bad law.

Let us simplify the laws and rules using two concepts:  Sunshine, and sunset.

 Sunshine?  Every meeting on-the-record in  bright light, open to all, no matter what the subject.

Sunset?  Every law, rule, regulation, whatever, has an expiration event and and an expiration date which retires the law, etc unless re-enacted.

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