Name The Proposal

Which party came up with the following and what did they call it?

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1. require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
2. select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
3. cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
4. limit the terms of all committee chairs;
5. ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
6. require committee meetings to be open to the public;
7. require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
8. guarantee an honest accounting of the Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

Isn't that the "Contract to Fuck America"?

It is indeed. Bernie Sanders' book has made it up to 1994.

Funny, what was radical conservatism 20 years ago sounds like middle-of-the-road liberal politics now.

NoCoPilot wrote:

what was radical conservatism 20 years ago sounds like middle-of-the-road liberal politics now.

There are no politics or policy in the so-called contract. It's neither conservative, moderate, nor liberal. It deals only with a few of the many rules for conducting Congressional business and was nothing more than a meaningless publicity stunt.

One part of the CWA was to limit congressional terms to 12 years; two terms for Senators, three for Representatives.

This provision actually got 227 yea votes (to 204 nays) in March 1995, but as a Constitutional amendment it required a two-thirds majority to become law.

Makes a lot of sense to me.  Presidents are limited to 8 consecutive years -- why not Congressmen & women?  The measure was called the "Citizen Legislature Initiative" which is what we should have.

Along with public financing of campaigns.

Remove the temptation and opportunity for corruption and you'll get less of it. Also citizen legislators, on temporary leaves from their normal lives, wouldn't forget who they're working for.

NoCoPilot wrote:

Along with public financing of campaigns.

By itself, this would accomplish nothing. It would only be useful when enacted with many other major changes in the way campaigns are conducted and financed, and the elimination of gerrymandering, as well as the elimination of lobbyists, just to name a few.