Why Cooperation May Be to Blame...

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(03-02-2017, 11:35 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, and this is something a lot of people don't necessarily realize, and that is those monied interests are doing more and more in the legislature, anyway. When you look at information about staff sizes in Washington, you will see that over the past 40 years there has been a significant decline in congressional staffers. Senators and Representatives are relying more and more on lobbyists to research issues and write legislation. Staffers are being pushed to local offices for constituent service types of jobs instead of being the ones to really work through issues with the official they work for.

For sure. In a lot of cases the lobbyists are literally writing legislation word-for-word.