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To: TomGuy

It sounds like you want term limits, and ankle bracelets while they ARE serving. Just kiddin’ ya!! Jindal agrees with the term limits.


14 posted on 11/23/2010 3:58:59 PM PST by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

Actually, the more appropriate way of handling this is to establish three simple requirements. First, require that all representatives and senators pack up and leave DC on 1 May and re-establish their residency for thirty days back in the home state, with no allowances for international travel or additional time in DC. If you can’t cooperate and stay in your home state for the month of May...then you lose any chance to run in the next election. It might be interesting to force them to get re-introduced to the folks who elected them.

Second...for each election year (every two years) dismiss congress and the senate by 1 July. Require that they leave the capital unless the President calls for an emergency session. This will give all a chance to go and campaign in their home state. If they want to return for a lame-duck session...fine, but there will be no business done unless a simple majority agrees to meet for the session.

Third...a congressman and senator gets a travel budget. He/she reports usage of that account each year to his home state. Every penny used for hotels, meals, and travel...even on Air Force flights...will be subtracted from your budget and reported. If you travel to exotic hotspots like Copenhagen for some global warming conference...then it comes off your travel tab.

The key here isn’t terms...because no one will agree to that but instead...keeping the boys back home in their state, and mandating it if necessary. Then you tie on travel limitations with a budget, and folks to be more accommodating on bills to get them passed in shorter bursts of time...meaning weaker bills for both sides of the coin. I suspect we’d start to forget folks even existed in DC after five years of this.


17 posted on 11/23/2010 4:20:18 PM PST by pepsionice
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