Good for him
Dec. 17th, 2005 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundMcCain to Congress: No more pigs at the trough (Salon)
"Fresh from winning a torture showdown with President Bush, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took the Senate floor Friday to challenge his congressional colleagues to clean up their act. His target was the cozy and corrupting relationship between lawmakers and lobbyists that has been exposed by recent investigations of Jack Abramoff, a former lobbyist who was once a darling of congressional Republicans. His solution was a new set of rules he hopes Congress adopts next year.
"This bill is regrettably necessary," said McCain, who chairs the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which has led the Abramoff investigation. "Much of what the committee learned was extraordinary. Yet, much of what we uncovered in the investigation was unfortunately the ordinary way of doing business in this town.""
"Fresh from winning a torture showdown with President Bush, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took the Senate floor Friday to challenge his congressional colleagues to clean up their act. His target was the cozy and corrupting relationship between lawmakers and lobbyists that has been exposed by recent investigations of Jack Abramoff, a former lobbyist who was once a darling of congressional Republicans. His solution was a new set of rules he hopes Congress adopts next year.
"This bill is regrettably necessary," said McCain, who chairs the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which has led the Abramoff investigation. "Much of what the committee learned was extraordinary. Yet, much of what we uncovered in the investigation was unfortunately the ordinary way of doing business in this town.""
