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Friday, September 26, 2003   Wasting Taxpayer's Money They're your employees. Members of Congress work for you, the citizens of the United States. Yet, the six of them that are running for President seem to feel that they don't owe you an honest day's work. Even when an issue that affects all Americans gets voted on. Even before the Senate voted yesterday to support a national "do-not-call" list to protect people from unwanted telephone solicitations, Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat, sent out a press release boasting his solution. He was co-sponsoring a bill, the press release said, that would authorize the Federal Trade Commission to institute such a list. "People trying to have a peaceful family dinner shouldn't have to put up with pestering calls from telephone pitchmen," Mr. Edwards said in his press release. "This is about giving people a choice and respecting their privacy." But when the Senate took up the bill up just two hours later, Mr. Edwards was nowhere around to urge passage of the bill or even to vote for it. He, along with the three other Democratic senators running for president, were in New York for a debate. Earlier in the day, the House approved similar legislation, 412 to 8. Among those not voting were Reps. Richard A. Gephardt, Missouri Democrat, and Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, who were also in New York debating one another. Inside Politics. Link will vanish, I believe. In the private sector we fire this type of employee, not promote them. Why not? -- posted by Chuck at Friday, September 26, 2003 | E-mail | Permalink | Main | 0 comments