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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Mon Apr 11, 2016, 02:30 PM Apr 2016

How Can Voters Hold Congress Accountable?

#AskROF: “What can voters do to control or cut the pay of Congress? The Constitution states that they shall be paid, but doesn’t state an amount.” Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins answers this on Ring of Fire TV.

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How Can Voters Hold Congress Accountable? (Original Post) GoLeft TV Apr 2016 OP

By electing better people. SheilaT Apr 2016 #1

Easy, by not re-electing incumbents 96% of the time. The voters do't demand change with their votes Trust Buster Apr 2016 #2

Tell them they did not OkSustainAg Apr 2016 #3

Hardly an answer swilton Apr 2016 #4

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

1. By electing better people.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 02:31 PM

Apr 2016

It's as simple as that.

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)

2. Easy, by not re-electing incumbents 96% of the time. The voters do't demand change with their votes

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 02:33 PM

Apr 2016

OkSustainAg

(203 posts)

3. Tell them they did not

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 02:45 PM

Apr 2016

want there job. Vote them out. Period.

swilton

(5,069 posts)

4. Hardly an answer

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 04:45 PM

Apr 2016

and fails in the logic of 'what if the candidate is worse than the incumbent' who is also a disaster.....I hate for the so-called left badgers people to get out and vote and/or blames people for not voting. It's very rare to find a candidate who can self-finance w/o taking corporate cash....Sanders is the rarest of the rare but there is also Jamie Raskin running against Kathleen Matthews for Chris Van Hollen's house seat in Maryland's 8th Congressional District.

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