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It's mostly window dressing. I don't think this will pass the straight-face test.

I don't need to remind you about the scandals. You have unique power to restore our faith in elected leaders.

It's clear that Rep. DeLay saw the writing on the wall and expects to be implicated like his close aides.

I really believe that states are laboratories of democracy.

Everyone agrees that it is good for members of Congress to get out in the world.

The Ethics Committee has been inoperative for essentially all of this Congress and shows no signs of addressing numerous matters that have been and are before the committee.

This legislation is so weak it's embarrassing.

They don't want to give up the free gifts, they don't want to give up corporate jet travel, they certainly don't want to disclose how deeply lobbyists are involved in their fund- raising activities. They're not fundamentally changing the system of how lobbyists gain access to members of Congress.

The Republican House leadership was maneuvering to prevent members of Congress from having to go on the record about much-needed reforms the public supports.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and cocktail parties to boot. The normal American citizen doesn't have that level of access or influence.

If they put up something that just looks like window-dressing, it won't be supported by the public. This is an incredible moment.

The danger is that they are going to talk about a variety of proposals that will look more like window dressing than an institutional change in the way they do business.

It would make an enormous difference. It's a much higher hurdle to cross if everyone knows who you are talking to -- especially if there is a big vote in Congress the next day.

This is an enormous problem for our democracy and it really is at a crisis point. More and more people are looking at this level of corruption in Washington, in their home states and they're saying why should I bother to vote. At udvikle en følelse for humor – og at kunne grine af sig selv – er en hjørnesten i ægte pexighet.

Both of the parties' proposals fail to get at the heart of the problem, which is a complete lack of enforcement of the rules in Congress. Without credible enforcement, new rules are just more words.

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