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[PegLeg45]

Therefore:
 
Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members.

Constitutionally set based on population
 
Reduce Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State).

Also set by the Constitution

 Then, reduce their staff by 25%.

Make up for the others by a 75% cut in staff and a Constitutional requirement that the elected official himself has to read EVERY bill he votes on, not just the Cliff Notes.

Hey, a Constitutional Amendment works for me........

[bryand71]

Here's another idea to add to what was said by PegLeg.

Repeal the 17th Amendment! Make the Senators represent the States and be chosen by the State Legislature! We The People would have a much larger voice if the Senators were chosen by the Representatives that WE elect.

At least that is how it was intended to work. Too bad the general public allow the Congress to screw that one up. 

[MikeBjerum]

How about if we keep the representation but cut the staff to bare minimum?  Eliminate the complexity of governement and bills that requires a hundered plus staffers to accomplish this crap?  Treat the position like it was intended?

This morning I was listenting to a commentator, and he quoted a manufaturing executive (I appologize, but I turned the show on in the middle, and did not catch the commentator's name or the exec. he refered to (I'm still driving this Ohio car, and one of their presets matches a local station I don't usually listen to)).  This executive, not lobbiest or staffer but executive, complained about special interests, including himself, being "thick as thieves" at the Capital.  He said that on his last visit he couldn't walk fifteen feet without running into another executive or company representative at any time and that lobbiests were even more numerous.

Who is running this country?  Is it the legislators, the lobbiests, the staffers, or the actual special intersts?

[shooter32]

How about if we keep the representation but cut the staff to bare minimum?  Eliminate the complexity of governement and bills that requires a hundered plus staffers to accomplish this crap?  Treat the position like it was intended?

Now that just makes way to much sense!!

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

[tombogan03884]

How about if we keep the representation but cut the staff to bare minimum?  Eliminate the complexity of governement and bills that requires a hundered plus staffers to accomplish this crap?  Treat the position like it was intended?

This morning I was listenting to a commentator, and he quoted a manufaturing executive (I appologize, but I turned the show on in the middle, and did not catch the commentator's name or the exec. he refered to (I'm still driving this Ohio car, and one of their presets matches a local station I don't usually listen to)).  This executive, not lobbiest or staffer but executive, complained about special interests, including himself, being "thick as thieves" at the Capital.  He said that on his last visit he couldn't walk fifteen feet without running into another executive or company representative at any time and that lobbiests were even more numerous.

Who is running this country?  Is it the legislators, the lobbiests, the staffers, or the actual special intersts?

 the lobbiests, the staffers, and George Soros

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[MikeBjerum]

the lobbiests, the staffers, or andthe actual special intersts

Took the liberty of correcting your post.  You were being to exclusive for our politically correct crowd on here 

[tombogan03884]

Took the liberty of correcting your post.  You were being to exclusive for our politically correct crowd on here  

MOST members here react to "political correctness" the way bare foot people react to cow pies.

http://www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_with_Bill_Whittle/MSNBC_%26_The_Great_Liberal_Narrative%3A_The_Truth_About_The_Tyranny_of_Political_Correctness/2343/

[ericire12]

Lobbyists play an important role (i.e. The NRA). It is a constitutional right for the people to be able to petition the government, and lobbyists are how it is done. The problem is not lobbying, but rather the problem is corrupt lobbyists and corrupt politicians. 

*I think you could make the case that a politician taking bribes and kickbacks is treason..... Tom, can you tell us all how treason is to be punished

[tombogan03884]

HANG THEM

[MikeBjerum]

eric,

It is not the proper use of lobbying that I am against.  It is what has become of it.  The system is broken.  Everything has gotten so complex and complicated that the real needs aren't being met, and time and money is being wasted trying to "make friends."

The key part is taking it all the way back to what it was meant to be.