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Article: Not business as usual.(members of Congress on their poltical campaigns)
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- National Voter
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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In an ideal world, members of Congress would dine every day with a single mother struggling to pay for child care or a person who just lost a job and has no health insurance. Members of Congress would fly coach, rather than fancy corporate jets. Members of Congress would understand the needs of average Americans and make laws to answer those needs.
But the world in which we live is far from ideal. The people with the greatest access to members of Congress are not single mothers, the uninsured or any other member of the general voting public. The people with the most access to members of Congress are business lobbyists.
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