Posted on 06/01/2019 4:33:51 AM PDT by SMGFan
Congressional Management Foundation honors six others for behind-the-scenes service
The Congressional Management Foundation will honor the late Sen. John McCain and longtime Rep. John D. Dingell, two Capitol Hill legends who died within the past year, with lifetime achievement democracy awards next month.
The nonpartisan group, which has been around since 1977 and says it aims to make Congress more effective, also selected a bipartisan slate of six lawmakers to honor for such behind-the-scenes efforts as constituent service.
Though not exactly the Oscars for Congress, the awards toast lawmakers and congressional aides for work to improve government transparency and to foster innovations on Capitol Hill.
“Americans usually only hear about Congress when something goes wrong,” said Bradford Fitch, president and CEO of the foundation. He said the awards seek to shine “a light on Congress when it does something right.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., will take home the “constituent service” statues.
Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., will receive “life in Congress workplace environment” awards, which recognize offices that have formal policies and informal cultures that enhance the work life of their aides.
And Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., will take home awards for “transparency, accountability and innovation.”
McCain, the Arizona Republican who was the 2008 GOP presidential contender, was first elected to the House in 1982 and to the Senate in 1986. He died in August at age 8
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And I thought only Hollyweird awarded prizes to themselves?
Politicians are some of the greatest actors around.
"Red flags... red flags everywhere..."
Bipartisan = leftist/globalist.
nonpartisan - you don’t understand. This is satire.
IT is Trump against then all...
McCain and Dingle a life time of corruption in Congress.
We made are families rich you people are suckers
Trump has exposed them all..
/hurl.
Both were execrable.
Mail the awards to hell.
In my career, I’ve won two awards. Didn’t really care much about either except one came with a few thousand in company stock at an extremely stable company.
The really ironic one was Employee of the year for a $500,000,000 division of a multinational company. It basically bought me another year of employment as I was shuffled out the door the next year in a re-alignment.
Personally I think internal awards are kind of dumb, and for “public servants” they flow downhill to stupid. Each and every one of those guys should be trying to outdo one another for constituent services and transparency
the devil’s reward for a job well done.
Let’s celebrate the fact that they’re both dead.
Satanism is not a political party, thus .... “a non-partisan group”
When the top two honorees are a RINO leftist and a DemocRAT Socialist leftist, the group’s “nonpartisan” credentials are highly doubtful.
Ah! I did type "bipartisan," rather than "nonpartisan!" There is indeed a distinction...
"Nonpartisan" sounds so... so... noble.
When you betray the people who voted for you (and McCain hated his base voters, except every six years at election time then went back to his sneering the day after), you can get all sorts of fake honors like this one. Stick the honors, I’d rather have some personal honor, which for McCain, except for his Navy service, was near none.
Both were execrable.
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Well done! The perfect word to describe those evil people.
WHO? John McCain? Did he do something?
John Dingell? Nope. Doesn’t ring a bell.
Just another DC Circle Jerk I guess.
Let’s celebrate the fact that they’re both dead.
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I second that motion.
More Participation Trophies. Bravo Foxtrot Delta.
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