Congressional Reform Act of 2012

 
"As a citizen of the United States, I find the actions of career lawmakers reprehensible. I believe in the vision of our founding fathers in creating citizen legislatures. I am asking you to hold our leaders past, present, and future to the same rules and limits that every citizen must follow. While I understand that this causes a hardship on you and your envisioned career, I am only asking you to be the leaders we elected you to be and make hard decisions that benefit our country and the people you represent."
petition via petition2congress.com

Suggested by Sharon...Thanks !

Family Affair Report Details Nepotism in Congress


Read Family Affair on Scribe 

 

{ See Wyoming starting at page 342 }
 
~82 members (40 Democrats and 42 Republicans) paid family members through their congressional offices, campaign committees and political action committees (PACs); 

~44 members (20 Democrats and 24 Republicans) have family members who lobby or are employed in government affairs;

 ~90 members (42 Democrats and 48 Republicans) have paid a family business, employer, or associated nonprofit; 

~20 members (13 Democrats and 7 Republicans) used their campaign money to contribute to a family member’s political campaign; 

~14 members (6 Democrats and 8 Republicans) charged interest on personal loans they made to their own campaigns; 

~38 members (24 Democrats and 14 Republicans) earmarked to a family business, employer, or associated nonprofit.
via citizensforethics.org

 

Test your own ethics with our Family Affair quiz 

How Our Laws Are Made


click image to enlarge

"As the national debt and budget issues monopolize the airwaves, it strikes me how little I remember from my undergraduate government courses. I can rattle off the names of several key representatives and senators, but the inner workings of their roles conjuring a bill into a law are a bit fuzzy. If you have found yourself in a similar predicament (or you are a political science buff who thrives on clever ways to explain governmental processes) this infographic is for you.

With the aesthetics of The Game of Life, today’s infographic thoroughly walks us through the trip a bill takes from introduction into the House of Representatives through publication as an official law."

via dailyinfographic.com

 

How Rich Is Congress ?

"Congress is big news these days. For what, we’re not really sure seeing as how they don’t seem to get much done, but the fact remains, Congress is big news. Also big news…the fact that Americans are remarkably broke these days. No matter how hard we work, it still seems to be just enough to put food on the table and iPods in our Burberry backpacks.

Meanwhile, as this highly entertaing infographic from the people at Online Schools explains, Congress is ballin’ out of control. Must be nice."  

by Adam Tod Brown via thesmokingjacket.com