[antimedia] antimedia: What's wrong with Congress?....

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Posted by antimedia:
What's wrong with Congress?....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1149821761.shtml


   ....[1]This might have something to do with it.

     The hits keep coming. The Center for Public Integrity has somehow
     stumbled onto the habits of the U.S. Congress, to discover that in
     the space of five and a half years lawmakers and staffers have
     accepted some $50 million worth of trips, often to foreign climes
     or exclusive resorts. In terms of time, they were gone on these
     expeditions for more than 81,000 days, or 222 years. Ah, would that
     it were so! But they return, obliged. And a solution is needed --
     now.

   But their votes aren't for sale......

References

   1. http://www.aim.org/guest_column/4626_0_6_0_C/