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    As the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, what are your priorities going to be in making sure that 2008 is a year of progress and change for the Democrats and Congress? More

    Asked 26 weeks 6 days ago of U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
    by elvin from Boston, MA

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    American high schools have high drop-out rates. What can Congress do to curb this trend? More

    Asked 36 weeks 2 days ago of All U.S. Congress
    by elvin from Boston, MA

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  • Question:

    As the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, what are your priorities going to be in making sure that 2008 is a year of progress and change for the Democrats and Congress?

    Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 30 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Economy · Money & Politics · Regulation · Technology. Tags: 2008 · appropriations · Oversight and Government Reform.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)

    Our committee has three goals and this is what we have been trying to accomplish: protecting taxpayer’s dollars from waste, fraud and abuse and making sure government works for the people third holding the government of this country accountable for their actions that’s what we have been trying to do in 2007 and 2008 during the time I have been chairman of that committee.

    Answered on Jun 5th, 2008 More

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    Digital rights pioneer Larry Lessig recently launched the 'Change Congress' website, which encourages "a national movement to end corruption in America's congress. " The site organizes citizens to encourage their lawmakers to pledge to change the rules of Congress to favor transparency. Sen. Feingold, will you take this pledge?

    Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 9 Votes.
    Categories: Arts | Culture · Money & Politics · Regulation · Technology. Tags: appropriations · Change Congress · Larry Lessig · no more earmarks · transparency.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. John Salazar (D-CO)

    Salazar: Well I think we made major reforms just this last term in the 109th. And we have certainly made clear, a clear movement towards transparency especially in the earmark reform area. And so I think while Democrats have been trying to do the good things we’ve been constantly blocked by the minority party.

    Laslo: Do you think there is more that needs to be done on transparency legislation and ethics reform?

    Answered on May 9th, 2008 More

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    Why do legislators always wait till the end of the year to appropriate tax dollars?

    Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 16 Votes.
    Categories: Economy · Regulation · Taxes.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT)

    This last year was the worst year I have ever seen for pushing things off to the end. And part of it was an effort on the part of leadership to attach non-germaine issues that were very controversial to pieces of legislation that were not controversial. So I really think it was a lack of organization this past year.

    Answered on Jan 22nd, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Why do legislators always wait till the end of the year to appropriate tax dollars?

    Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 16 Votes.
    Categories: Economy · Regulation · Taxes.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

    Well there are certain things like the spending bills that simply have to be done and at the end of a session everyone is tired and wants to go home and it’s easier to get things done that way. And usually we do some pretty bad things at the end of the session. But I think people get tired and realize it needs to be done and we procrastinate at the end of the year, and it just ends up that way.

    Answered on Jan 22nd, 2008 More

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    What are you willing to do to make sure that the remainder of the 110th Congress is productive considering it is an election year? What will your legislative priorities be?

    Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 16 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008. Tags: 110th Congress · election year · Elections · legislation · priorities.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

    Democrats have returned for this second session of this Congress reinvigorated and ready to tackle the problems challenging our country. We come back to this new direction Congress focusing on the economy. It has been clear for the past few weeks that all sectors of the economic world, all shades of opinion in the economic world are saying to us that a stimulus is needed to avoid a downturn or to worsen the situation.

    Answered on Jan 16th, 2008 More

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    American high schools have high drop-out rates. What can Congress do to curb this trend?

    Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 36 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Economy · Education · Race & Sex · Technology. Tags: drop outs · education · national standards · public school · school.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA)

    Oh there’s a lot we can do to fix that in the rewrite on No Child Left Behind, we plan to focus on those high schools that produce the greatest number of dropouts, to try to put together a plan for those high schools, to also focus on those schools that feed into those high schools.You know have about two-thousand high schools that produce almost fifty-percent of the drop-outs in the country and so we want to start looking at how’d we improve the graduation rates, how we help the schools attract students to come back to school, maybe even some of the students who’ve dropped out come back

    Answered on Jan 6th, 2008 More

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