~~Are you really Trying to hide voting records?~~
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by fivescott
Where do we as a people get our information on what our Congress is doing? We look at their voting records. From that information, we can see if they are proposing meaningful laws and if they vote the way that they promised during their election campaign.
Transparency goes out the window without showing us voting records. There is very little communication between the government and the citizens of this country in the first place. There have been members of previous Presidential Cabinets who have kept us well informed on the goings on behind the scenes (the best example was Claire Littleton’s stint as the White House Press Secretary). That is the last time that I can remember someone really trying to give us regular folks the scoop on what goes on up there in that mysterious capital of ours. That has also been five months.
There have been many Congressmen and Congresswomen who have offered their voting records on a weekly basis to their constituents, but a lot don’t. That leaves us to look these records up on our own. If the public records office were to close, keeping us from making informed decisions on who we vote into office, we might as well put a picture of each person who is running and throw a dart to decide.
Currently our Congress is attempting to pass laws prohibiting us from viewing their voting records. I urge you all to write to your congressmen/congresswomen and tell them that this is not fair and we will not stand for this. We need public voting records to insure that our elected officials are being honest and fighting for our welfare.
Thank you,
Concerned Citizen of the eUSA
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voting records should be part of the in game module
I never thought I would miss Claire... Good job Live at Five and keep it up.
Wow! Good work! Keep it up!
I am in agreement with keeping voting records public. I am, however, a minority in this.
Voted.
Get the facts straight, please. Nobody is trying to prevent anything. What they are trying to do it do is do away with institutionalized voting records, which amounts to babysitting Congresspersons and relieving them of their duties to represent themselves to the voters.
Please read up on the discussion so far before going to extremes like this. We are trying to be reasonable and take all opinions into account.
When a proposal passes 43 to 0....and nearly all of them have...what do you want us to tell you about how we voted that you couldn't figure out on your own?
To add to that...most of the proposals are routine transfers of money to the Congressional Budget Office or re-signing MPPs with our allies. These are passing without opposition.
The discussion was about not reporting those votes and reserving reporting votes to things that weren't routine/unanimous. Things such as tax changes and impeachments.
I never got the impression that Congress was talking about "hiding" their results, because that was something I'd be up in arms around. The measures being discussed are more a means to reduce paperwork.
I disclose my voting records, and I think that most Congresspeople do. Here is my latest as an example:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/arizona-congressman-s-report-and-voting-record-day-676-685-973010/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/ariz[..]/1/20
I think the discussion is more about a new format of posting voting records, and not bothering with publishing the voting record on proposals like money transfers.
The only votes that really deserve voting records are impeachments and tax changes, we should certainly post records for these, in the most public of places.
Killing Time is a little snarky in his comments there. I thought Congressmen had to at least pretend to be polite? Ah, well.
This is clearly an article.
Nice and voted... This is definitely something that should be shown to all. We live in a e-democracy, not a e-communistic state.
Any vote that's not unanimous should be reported.