[PapaBear3625]

Maybe it’s JUST ME, but I don’t see how being on the House Asia-Pacific Interrelational Infrastructure Sub-Committee or whatever the hell is so important to them is worth SELLING OUT your country and your voters for. I just don’t see it...maybe it’s me.

If you are on an important committees, then the entities which that committee regulates have an incentive to give you campaign contributions. Lobbyists will invite you to lunch and to cocktail parties and to junkets in nice places. Extremely beautiful women will want to spend the evening with you to "discuss pending legislation".

If you are not on any important committee, then the DC insiders will have little interest in you.

[BobL]

I hear you...something is DEFINITELY BROKEN in that system, of course.

[ReaganGeneration2]

No system of government can avoid this corruption if the people it governs, the sheeple who choose these oligarchs, are corrupt themselves. Garbage in, garbage out. Without a turn to Judeo-Christian virtue by the people, this system will continue to fail.

[Blue Highway]

That’s the problem... DC insiders... lobbyists... Conservatives should tell those cretins to “get lost!”