Is Congress Worth Running for?
Hey! How’s your Congressman doing? Puro lang ba pa-cute? Well, Walden Belo has one thought provoking question.
Is Congress Worth Running for?
“There are members of the 14th Congress who, I am told, have never once spoken on the floor in their nine years in the House. And when members do rise to deliver privilege speeches, they usually devote these to attacking enemies in their congressional districts, which is why very few members appear to be paying attention even when a speaker is trying his bombastic best to pound his absent foe to smithereens.”
“The subject of a privilege speech is sometimes amusing. One member once rose to denounce a local airline for not allowing his aide to check in for him, leading to his being left behind. But while outsiders might have found devoting 45 minutes to this topic absurd, it was not at all to many members. When the congressman finished his tirade, others rose to lambast the same airline for similar experiences that wounded their sense of entitlement.”
Read the rest of the article here: Afterthoughts
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reynz is one Uragon and a Filipino-American, has many years of public accounting & auditing, broadcast investments, housing tax credits and equity investments as his background. Based in the US, he maintains his personal and humor blog at reyna elena dot com. A graduate of Aquinas U, he went to GWU and Temple U in the United States.
Probably not, as one Presidentiable has repeatedly answered, we already have enough laws so no need to work hard to have your proposed bills enacted into law…
sa dami ba naman ng pork barrel, it’s definitely worth running for….