'Its failings and subservience to corporatism are historic in scope,' writes RalphNader.
anniversary of our Congress Project that profiled in detail members of Congress. No citizen group has ever done this before or since.
Bills languished that sought to establish a strong federal regulatory presence for pensions, drinking water safety, and safer food products, from farms to families. Other teams also worked long hours to produce books on key congressional committees such as Judiciary, Commerce and Rules. These efforts required digging, interviewing, and working with about 1,000 volunteers in all 50 states.
The leadership in the House and Senate reserved large rooms so that final drafts of the profiles could be reviewed for factual accuracy by the legislators themselves. On the appointed days, the lawmakers came to these rooms one by one and read every page. Whether they wanted to or not, they deemed it the better part of political prudence to accept our entreaties for maximum accuracy.
The solons of Congress just didn’t want the people back home to know much beyond what members of Congress said in their choreographed newsletters, radio and TV reports and occasional town meetings. Members of Congress didn’t like their unedited voting records reported in detail. They intuitively knew that “information is the currency of democracy,” and most of them, with few exceptions, wanted to determine what currency was released and printed.
Two simple bills, if enacted, would go a long way toward making members of Congress identify with their sovereign voters, to be more part of “we the people” instead of “we the Congress.”
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