Reid aided Abramoff clients. Reid is up to this thing in his eyeballs. Democrats can spin this any way they want to but he's hip deep. The current spin is that he didn't take any money from Abramoff personally, he just took money from his clients. To me, there's no difference. The guy knew Abramoff and worked on behalf of his clients. If you're going to be honest about this, you have to paint all recipients with the same brush.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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