No Cost Politics
A free and power forum for promoting his members. Those are ethical violations by the Speaker and the members requesting such a use of a governing body.
This is what gerrymandering has done for the USA. Legislators are using the House floor for politics. The members electorate are saying, "But you are not on the record. Blah, blah, blah. Get on the record." So, now Boner is using the House Floor to be sure members elected since the last health care vote are now in Congressional Record and published for the politics of their district elections. That is all this House does. Cantor and the rest of them are encouraging a completely dysfunctional government structure. They don't care what the country needs. No dinner invitation is going to fix this.
...Although nearly 40 votes (click here) have been held since the law was passed, Boehner, R-Ohio, said of the upcoming vote, scheduled for next week: "We've got 70 new members who have not had an opportunity to vote on the president's healthcare law. Obamacare is going to drive up the cost of healthcare. It is going to drive up the cost of health insurance and make it harder for small businesses to hire workers."...
The Democrats running against the Republicans in 2014 need to point to the lack of leadership in the House and the misuse and abuse of power to ignore the needs of a nation.
