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I joined Rising to discuss our new investigation this week.
The list of hypocritical privileges lawmakers bestow upon themselves is nearly endless. Congress exempts itself from Freedom of Information Act laws, benefits from special free government health care, and crafted exclusions into the law to prevent their staff from forming unions or receiving overtime pay, among other exploits.
In our new investigation this week, I revealed a blatant effort by many incumbent lawmakers to use taxpayer money for campaign purposes. I joined The Hill’s Rising to discuss the story.
Yet they complain of “ethics” needs for SCOTUS. Hypocrites.
Thank you, Lee. Good interview on your excellent article.
Perhaps as great, or an even greater, harm which results from this type of abuse by our so-called Congressional Representatives is not just the erosion of the American Public's respect for the Congresspersons involved, but the example it sets for the American Public's conduct in their own personal lives. Immediately following Bill Clinton's fiasco in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky, his outright lies about it, and his legalese stonewalling, I noted a real erosion in the ethical standards persons I interacted with in the business community applied to their own personal actions (i.e.: "monkey see, monkey do"). The downward spiral in the self-imposed general ethical standards followed in our society engendered by politicians' routinely self-serving activities is both corrosive and destructive in the extreme.