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I;d go with all of that except << 2. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. >>

 

My thinking was you'll only get very rich people with self interest in congress otherwise.

 

Then again this is USA where it seems no one gets a pension so maybe I am being too socialist for the USA

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... the only people using the race card on this board are ones who are desperate to defend a two-faced, ineffective, inept person in the White House. ...

 

Gotta support you on this one, Hugh.

 

How could your defense of George Bush, a white boy from Texas, possibly be considered racist?

 

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I;d go with all of that except << 2. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. >>

 

My thinking was you'll only get very rich people with self interest in congress otherwise.

 

Then again this is USA where it seems no one gets a pension so maybe I am being too socialist for the USA

 

Salary is a tough one. How about the same wages for any politician in your state? Same as the governor or state legislature or an average of all them.

 

Since they represent the state, I'd shift the pay and benefits package to the state. Let their own people determine their worth.

 

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nationality means alot to me. i personally object to gordon brown being in power at westminster when an englishman could not sit in holyrood (scottish parliment)....this really pisses me off and fuck all to do with race.....

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THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

 

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

 

1. Term Limits.

The rest is fine. I have serious issues with this however. It circumvents democracy -- who the people want to elect should be sacrosanct. I.e., we already have term limits: they are called elections.

 

Now if you want to say something like "no serving member of the Federal Government can work for a company with ties to the Federal Government for five years before & after their tenure," then I'd go for that.

 

EDIT -- Re-reading, I have an issue with #8 as well. Contracts are contracts, and are legally binding or the whole economic system flushes down the toilet (moreso than it is now). If they are broken, then some restitution has to be paid. That was certainly the GOP's stance on the Wall Street Billion$ bonuses using TARP money (gee, so figure: GOPers know why they are in office), even tho' not so much when it came to union contracts (once again, go figure. GOPers think: fuck the $15/hr guy since nothing will happen if they do!!!).

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... the only people using the race card on this board are ones who are desperate to defend a two-faced' date=' ineffective, inept person in the White House. ...

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Gotta support you on this one, Hugh.

 

How could your defense of George Bush, a white boy from Texas, possibly be considered racist?

 

 

Now, now.... you must remember GWB was a cheerleader during a time period when no red blood 'American' boy would even consider being a cheer leader.

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Was gonna put this in the sports section but no one would have read it...lol...probably still won't here. :nahnah:

 

While I agree the BCS is a mess and the ONLY reason it is the only college sport that doesn't have a play off system is because of one thing and one thing only...MONEY. I agree with the BCS exec in the article that the government should have better things to do than investigate this stuff (throw in steroid use amongst athletes as well, let the governing bodies of the sports handle that).

 

Seems the congress is investigating at the behest of Sen. Hatch of Utah, who is pissed BYU never gets invited.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110504/ap_on_sp_ot/us_bcs_justice_department;_ylt=AiI2..IxBuSdCYIdvqGU2OcLMxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJxcHBscTdoBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwNTA0L3VzX2Jjc19qdXN0aWNlX2RlcGFydG1lbnQEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2p1c3RpY2V0b25jYQ--

 

In a letter this week, the department's antitrust chief, Christine Varney, asked NCAA President Mark Emmert why a playoff system isn't used in football, unlike in other sports; what steps the NCAA has taken to create one; and whether Emmert thinks there are aspects of the BCS system that don't serve the interest of fans, schools and players.

 

"Your views would be relevant in helping us to determine the best course of action with regard to the BCS," she wrote.

 

"Serious questions continue to arise suggesting the current Bowl Championship Series system may not be conducted consistent with the competition principles expressed in the federal antitrust laws," Varney said.

 

Hatch's involvement:

in response to a statement from Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and BCS critic. Hatch called the BCS a "mess" and said that "privileged conferences" have tremendous advantages over the unprivileged.

 

"And I just hope that you'll continue to follow up on that particular issue," he said. "It's an important one, I think."

 

Also Obama is interested as well:

Before he was sworn in as president, Barack Obama said in 2008 that he was going to "to throw my weight around a little bit" to nudge college football toward a playoff system.

 

I do agree with the BCS people on this:

Bill Hancock, the BCS executive director, was confident the current system complies with the law.

 

"Goodness gracious, with all that's going on in the world right now and with national and state budgets being what they are, it seems like a waste of taxpayers' money to have the government looking into how college football games are played," he said.

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