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Comment by Bob J Criswell on January 19, 2010 at 4:01pm

THIS IS HOW WE CAN FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
Send this to virtually everybody on your e-mail list and that includes conservatives, liberals, and everybody in between. This is the proposed "Congressional Reform Act of 2010". It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Congress has the lowest approval of any entity in Government, the entity that represents us.
We need to get a Senator to introduce this bill in the US Senate and a Representative to introduce a similar bill in the US House.

These people will become American hero's.. Please send any ideas on how to get this done.

Thanks,

A Fellow American

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Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


2. No Tenure / No Pension:
A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office..
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.

The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

Comment by Bob J Criswell on January 17, 2010 at 2:08pm

Comment by Tea Party Founder on January 17, 2010 at 10:32am

Bob - Thanks for this info. I agree the Union members need to standup for America, even if their Union Bosses don't.

Comment by Bob J Criswell on January 17, 2010 at 10:32am

What Sarah Said: Fri at 9:45am

Union Brothers and Sisters:
Your Leadership Doesn’t Get It – You Deserve Better

In the latest to come out of D.C.’s backroom health care deals, President Obama yesterday cut a doozy of a deal with labor union bosses. The fed’s health care plan must be so bad that even union bosses had to go to D.C. to say they wanted out. So... to keep their support for a flawed plan they got an exemption to provisions in the deal that others did not. Small business owners, our families running America’s mom & pops, did not get this deal. Ask yourself: why did union bosses get special treatment? And when did our country’s unions get on the wrong track with moves like this that hurt their good members and put them in such a bad light?

Good hard-working, pro-free-market, pro-America union members should join in opposition to their union bosses’ sweetheart deal. Coming from a union background and living in a world with many union memberships among my family and friends, I know that average members will be embarrassed by their bosses’ deal, which basically only delays the heavy tax on their health care plans until 2018 and in the meantime unfairly leaves many fellow Americans in a much less “enviable” position.

Union members don’t want to stick it to non-union colleagues in the private and public sector. Their union leadership is not helping them in the long run, they’re certainly not helping the rest of America, and unfortunately some union bosses are making all union members look bad, selfish, and anti-business with this Big Government backroom deal.

I know that ordinary union members don’t want to hurt their fellow Americans, just as ordinary Nebraskans didn’t want to stick it to the rest of the country with a sweetheart deal on Medicaid subsidies. I urge union members to make their voices heard. Please, call your leadership – don’t put up with these special-interest politics – tell them to fight for all Americans who want common sense health care reform, not this flawed boondoggle.

- Sarah Palin

Comment by Bob J Criswell on January 3, 2010 at 3:13pm

Victory or Death the secret password of George Washington, we all must make this our agenda as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtjfMjjce2Y

Comment by Bob J Criswell on December 31, 2009 at 9:36am

Dec. 31, 2009 What kind of health does congress get and at what cost?
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5382782n

Comment by Bob J Criswell on December 31, 2009 at 7:43am

FYI SENATE SEATS UP FOR RE-ELECTION 2010

New York (D-Gillibrand) -- Variations on theme: Pataki and Giuliani are running out of time to make their decisions, particularly in a state where you're liable to need $20-$30 million to run a viable campaign. Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed to the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton when she became Secretary of State. She has only one term of experience in the House, so she will be a target. However, in 2008 she got 68% of the vote in a somewhat (R+3) Republican district and she has a 100% rating from the NRA, so many Republicans clearly find her acceptable. She is also a prodigious fundraiser. By 2010 she will be well known in the state. Nevertheless, several representatives were/are mulling a primary challenge. Rep. Steve Israel pulled out when Rahm Emanuel told him that if he ran, the President would personally campaign against him. Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Carolyn McCarthy also threatened her with primaries and both backed down. The Republicans best hope is that Rudy Giuliani enters the race, although his many marriages and divorces and other baggage will not be a plus upstate and maybe not even in NYC. Former governor George Pataki is a possible, but unlikely candidate. All in all, if Emanuel can scare away all primary challengers, Gillibrand is probably safe.

Schumer, Charles E. – (D – NY) Class III 313 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-6542 Web Form: schumer.senate.gov/new_website/contact.cfm The Republicans will probably put up a symbolic candidate against Chuck Schumer, but the only value in doing so is for the candidate to get some statewide exposure to run for some other office later. Remember, this is the guy who ran the DSCC for two cycles and knocked off 14 sitting Republicans. He did so primarily due to his ability to raise mountains of money for other people. If he could do that for a mayor in far-off Alaska, imagine what he can do for himself. Schumer maybe invincible, but with his strong support for Obama Care anything is possible

Comment by Bob J Criswell on December 29, 2009 at 3:36pm

FYI HOUSE SEATS UP FOR RE-ELECTION 2010

New York

• Timothy Bishop (D) of New York's 1st congressional district:
Four-term Congressman Timothy Bishop may be vulnerable in 2010 with voter unrest in Long Island over government spending. Conservative business entrepreneur Randy Altschuler could easily self-finance his campaign as he seeks the Republican nomination. The district narrowly went for Obama by a 51%-48% margin.

• Charlie Rangel (D) of New York's 15th congressional district:
38-year House veteran Charlie Rangel's ethics have come under fire after failing to report $660,000 in income and not paying taxes on a beach rental property in the Dominican Republic and in multiple rent-subsidized apartments in New York City. Several Democrats are challenging Rangel in a primary, including New York City Councilwoman Inez Dickens, Councilman Robert Jackson, and state Assemblymen Adriano Espaillat, Keith Wright, and Adam Clayton Powell IV. Obama won the district with 93% of the vote and was ranked by the Cook Partisan Voting Index as the second most liberal district in the country.

• John Hall (D) of New York's 19th congressional district:
Hall unseated six-term Congresswoman Sue Kelly in 2006, and Republicans failed to recruit a strong candidate in 2008. In 2010 however, Republicans have a strong candidate in Assemblyman Greg Ball. The district favored Obama by 3-percentage points in 2008.

• Scott Murphy (D) of New York's 20th congressional district:
Scott Murphy was elected by 0.4% of the vote in a special election in 2009, down from the 23-point victory Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand received in 2008. Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco (who lost to Murphy in 2009) may seek a rematch.

• Michael Arcuri (D) of New York's 24th congressional district:
Michael Arcuri (elected in 2006) faced a surprisingly close reelection in 2008, winning by a 52%-48% margin. As a result Republicans will probably target him in 2010. Arcuri is a member of the "Blue Dog" Democrats.

• Christopher Lee (R) of New York's 26th congressional district:
Christopher Lee is one of just 3 Republican Congressman out of 29 from New York State. Elected in 2008, he enjoys a solid Republican base from a district that represents the suburbs of Buffalo and Rochester. Still, it's unlikely Lee will get a free pass for his first reelection.

• Eric Massa (D) of New York's 29th congressional district:
Freshman Democrat Eric Massa caused controversy in August 2009 when he said on health care, "I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful." [20] The district, representing much of rural upstate New York, did support George W. Bush in 2004 and McCain in 2008. Republican Corning Mayor Tom Reed has announced that he will take on Massa in 2010.

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