U.S. Senators reject new controls on unethical conduct
A majority of the Senators on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Reform Committee rejected the Collins-Lieberman proposal to create an Office of Public Integrity in Congress. Thank you to Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) for their outstanding leadership. Also, Senator Barak Obama (D-IL) proposed the creation of a Congressional Ethics Enforcement Commission, an alternative solution to control our Congress' unethical actions.
Voted to Support Office of Public Integrity:
Senator Collins (R-ME)
Senator Lieberman (D-CT)
Senator Carper (D-DE)
Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Senator Levin (D-MI)
Voted to Oppose Office of Public Integrity:
Senator Akaka (D-HI)
Senator Bennett (R-UT)
Senator Chafee (R-RI)
Senator Coburn (R-OK)
Senator Coleman (R-MN)
Senator Dayton (D-MN)
Senator Domenici (R-NM)
Senator Pryor (D-AR)
Senator Stevens (R-AK)
Senator
Voinovich (R-OH)
Senator Warner (R-VA)
Please make note if your senator is on this list, to help you decide on who you will vote for this November. VOID, Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy, encourages voters to vote out congresspeople who are irresponsible in their duty to represent us and our nation as public officials.
Our United States Senators voted today to ignore the deep concerns of the American people about the corruption and lobbying scandals in Congress. The Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG will support various floor amendments next week, when these bills come to the Senate floor, in order to help ensure that the American people are provided real reforms. As these public interest reform groups related in a joint press release today, strong medicine is required to deal with the lobbying scandals in Washington. What we got this week is a placebo.
Comments
It's like asking a wolf to herd sheep. It's rediculous. Checks and balances are clearly not working.
Posted by: romunov | March 6, 2006 1:56 PM
The compromise insures there will be no investigation of past ethics violations according to The Hill. They are all giving each other a free pass.
Posted by: David R. Remer | March 8, 2006 4:47 PM
Of course they reject reforms.
romunov (above) is so right.
Expecting government to reform itself is like asking an alcholic to not drink anymore. Please!
Voters are going to suffer the consequences of their negligence. That is why politicians have such a disdain for voters. Voters are complacent and negligent. They even repeatedly vote for the very bought-and-paid-for scum bags that use and abuse them year in and year out.
Yeah. I'm starting to agree with politicians. Voters deserve what they get. Especially since they have the right to vote, but waste that vote over and over.
If I were a stinkin' , low life, bought-and-paid-for incumbent politician, I'd probably say the same thing.
Stick it to those stupid voters. They deserve what they get, because all they have to do is simply vote us out, but they never do.
Posted by: d.a.n | March 8, 2006 9:14 PM
For instance, incumbent Rep. Tom DeLay, who won his Republican Primary election today, is now popping bubbly with lobbyists in Washington DC tonight! VOID has work to do, and more and more American voters will see the relative heaven they will enjoy with responsible public officials representing them in office. We will have Congresspeople and the President who will know who their boss really is.
Posted by: David Weller | March 8, 2006 9:47 PM
DeLay's results were very disappointing. Very, very disappointing.
Slowly but surely, we're getting the word out.
Posted by: Stephanie | March 11, 2006 10:19 PM