This is a transcript of Arizona Sen. John's McCain's interview Tuesday (July 8, 2008) with Trib editors and reporters. McCain: ... we've been talking about the economy a lot. And I am convinced, and by the way we have five Nobel Laureates and 200, 300 economists who think that we have a viable proposal that has to do with job creation, that has to do with keeping taxes low, with health -- affordable and available health care, and to making sure that our economy can recover in a robust fashion. Spending in my view is the major contributor to a lot of the economic difficulties we have today. We have allowed spending to get completely out of control. The size of spending has increased by some 40 percent, the greatest increase in "discretionary spending." The greatest increase in size of go...
.. two things Congress never misses, that's a pay raise and recesses, no ...is directly related to the 9 percent approval rating. Don't you think Americans would like to he...
Was it the best of deals or the worst of deals? While the final word on the Great Tax Compromise of 2010 will not be written for some years, the immediate road ahead will be more easily navigated if we avoid the potholes of neglect and spin, instead focusing on solutions most Americans think will work. For months, the American public has watched the lackluster performances of Congress (13 percent approval rating) and President Obama (47 percent approval rating) in dealing with the economy. For years, Congress has known that the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 would expire this year. But like the procrastinating student who fails to prepare for finals, leaders of both parties failed to come to consensus and lead. Little wonder even now, despite passing votes, that there is little consensus fro...
It was 2015. Everything had been made nearly perfect. The People's representatives in Congress, leveraging the full weight of their collective 11 percent approval rating, had made it so. Many accepted the decisions of their leaders as a reflection of the leaders' great omniscience.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have pushed through an ethics reform measure. In the future, ethical lapses by House members will be the in the hands of the new Office of Congressional Ethics, an outside panel. Political insiders are brushing the move aside as mere "damage control." With the approval-rating of Congress lower than the approval rating of door-to-door vacuum salesmen, the conventional wisdom is that Congress is simply trying to mend its broken image and win some confidence from voters in an election year.
AMERICANS, according to a Gallup poll on Tuesday, gave Congress an approval rating of 11 percent. It's not hard to see why. It was only a few days ago that the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly backed a deal to briefly extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for the longtime unemployed. Some observers saw the agreement as a rare and welcome display of bipartisanship. After all, it was supported by 89 senators. Now things are sadly back to normal. The Republican-controlled House on Tuesday refused to back the deal and is asking for immediate negotiations with the Senate. Considering that many senators have gone home for the holidays, that's not likely to happen.
where we stand It's ridiculous that members of Congress aren't prohibited from profiting off information attained through their work as legislators. The House and Senate need to rectify this egregious omission. Last month Congress marked a dubious achievement: Its approval rating fell to a single-digit percentage. Just 9 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
Since the approval rating of Congress is at an all-time low, I think it is time I offered my suggestions on how it could be improved, short of mass resignations: Term limits. Terms in the Senate will be limited to two six- year terms. There is no reason for senators to die in office of old age.
Even God's poll numbers are down, barely crossing the 50 percent approval rate, according to a poll done by Public Policy Polling. While relatively low, they easily exceed the numbers of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. They each had a 33 percent approval rating. Rupert Murdoch, the scandal-plagued media baron, was seen favorably by only 12 percent of voters.
As the Thanksgiving deadline approaches for the congressional super committee on deficit reduction to complete its work, the whole thing is starting to look like a big, fat turkey. It's difficult to gauge which is worse: the committee's lack of progress toward a deal to cut the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion, or the total absence of sunshine on the proceedings. No wonder Congress' approval rating has sunk to single digits, a new low.
Congress' approval rating hit another historic low when a recent Gallup poll found 76 percent of registered voters think congressional incumbents don't deserve re-election. That's the highest percentage in the 19 years Gallup has asked the question. So what's Congress' plan to turn things around? Run a public relations campaign, of course. Its most recent effort comes in the form of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act - a bill that's been in the making for six years but recently got a big push after a "60 Minutes" investigation raised serious questions about the success some members of Congress have had buying and selling stocks while in office. The STOCK Act is supposed to ban members of Congress from insider trading. The trouble is, Congress is already subject to t...
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