The 10 Worst Congressmen
Rolling Stone Magazine has a great article (here) about the 10 worst Congressmen in today. I was absolutely floored by the amount of illegal activities that goes on and the fact that not too much is being done about it.
1) DENNIS HASTERT (R-ILL.) – The Speaker of the House no less..
- secretly inserting $207 million into the budget for the “Prairie Parkway” — a highway that will speed development of 210 acres he owns in Illinois
2) JAMES SENSENBRENNER JR. (R-WIS.)
- Sensenbrenner has proposed legislation that would turn 12 million undocumented immigrants into felons.
- When Democrats began discussing the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo, the chairman abruptly ended the meeting and cut off their microphones. When Democrats refused to leave the room, Sensenbrenner’s staff pulled the plug on C-Span and turned out the lights.
3) DON YOUNG (R-ALASKA)
- With nearly $1 billion in pork-barrel projects for his home state.
- More than $400 million of the money was earmarked for two separate “bridges to nowhere.” One, nearly as long as the Golden Gate, would serve an island community of only fifty people.
4) WILLIAM JEFFERSON (D-LA.)
- In May, the FBI raided his office after the Louisiana Democrat was caught accepting $100,000 in bribes — most of which was later discovered in Jefferson’s freezer.
5) JERRY LEWIS (R-CALIF.)
- As chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Lewis oversees nearly $900 billion a year in federal spending — but anyone looking for a slice of that money has to deal with his best friend, lobbyist Bill Lowery.
- Lowery and his clients made more than $480,000 in contributions to Lewis — more than a third of the congressman’s total campaign money since 2000. Lowery’s firm, in turn, tripled its revenue to $5 million — and his clients pocketed hundreds of millions in federal pork projects from Lewis.”
6) TOM TANCREDO (R-COLO.)
- Head of the Council for Conservative Citizens, a “pro-white” group that lauds Tancredo for protecting America from a “full-scale invasion” of Latin immigrants.
- Tancredo has not only led the fight to deport every undocumented worker in America — a proposal that would cost at least $200 billion — but has called for halting all immigration, legal and otherwise. In one unforgettable move, Tancredo wanted to deport the family of an undocumented high school boy who was profiled in The Denver Post for his perfect grades.
7) DICK POMBO (R-CALIF.)
- As chairman of the House Resources Committee, Pombo has waged a career-long campaign to abolish the Endangered Species Act” “Pombo has also won passage of bills to eliminate habitat protections on 150 million acres of wilderness and to lift a quarter-century moratorium on offshore oil drilling.
CURT WELDON (R-PA.)
- Companies with business before Weldon’s committees have directed $1 million in lobbying deals to his daughter and sponsored his son’s race-car operation.
- During his current re-election campaign, he criticized his opponent, retired Vice Adm. Joe Sestak, for seeking treatment for his daughter’s brain tumor at a hospital outside of Pennsylvania.
9) HAL ROGERS (R-KY.)
- As chairman of the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security, he has placed the interests of his own district ahead of defending the nation from Al Qaeda.
- Since the 9/11 attacks, Rogers has abused his position to steer production of a system designed to enhance airport security to a factory in Corbin, Kentucky.” “Rogers forced the government to spend $4 million to test the factory’s technology — steering some of the work to a tiny company that hired his son.”
10) MARILYN MUSGRAVE (R-COLO.)
- For her opposition to gay marriage — as well as her push to legalize concealed weapons — Musgrave received an endorsement from the KKK in May.
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