Gov Jindal: ‘Make Congressmen Part-time’

It seems like an insurmountable task for GOP candidates to take out the liberal fixtures of Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel, and Barney Frank in congressional elections, but how about making them part-time workers instead? Perhaps that’s one way to minimize the amount of unpopular legislation coming out of Washington these days. Bobby Jindal thinks so. According to him, it’s about time we slice and dice the number of hours lawmakers have in a work day.

“We used to pay farmers not to grow crops, let’s make congressman stay out of Washington, D.C.,” the Louisiana Governor said in an exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS. “Our liberty, our wallets are safest when the legislature’s not in session,” he added, borrowing the line from Mark Twain.

http://www.redstate.com/jasonmattera/20 ... part-time/

Now this is something I would support.

I agree! I also like the idea of every person in congress staying in their home state. Technology would allow them to vote and view any debate over the internet. It would make it very expensive for lobbyists to visit all of them in their home states as well!

a saying i saw on a bumper sticker “No Man’s Life Liberty or Property is Safe…While the Legislature is in Session”

so why not cancel the legislature altogether.

I've been saying that for years!! I always hate it when I hear the State and/or Federal legislatures are back at work raising taxes and creating new laws!

In order to pass a new law, they should have to repeal at least 5 existing laws, which cannot be incorporated into the new law, or any other new law for at least 5 years.

Pineguy wrote:

It seems like an insurmountable task for GOP candidates to take out the liberal fixtures of Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel, and Barney Frank in congressional elections, but how about making them part-time workers instead? Perhaps that’s one way to minimize the amount of unpopular legislation coming out of Washington these days. Bobby Jindal thinks so. According to him, it’s about time we slice and dice the number of hours lawmakers have in a work day.

“We used to pay farmers not to grow crops, let’s make congressman stay out of Washington, D.C.,” the Louisiana Governor said in an exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS. “Our liberty, our wallets are safest when the legislature’s not in session,” he added, borrowing the line from Mark Twain.

http://www.redstate.com/jasonmattera/20 ... part-time/

Now this is something I would support.

Agree

All laws should have a 10 year sunset provision in them. Government would be half the size it is now.

RenegadeCJ wrote: I agree! I also like the idea of every person in congress staying in their home state. Technology would allow them to vote and view any debate over the internet. It would make it very expensive for lobbyists to visit all of them in their home states as well!

Interesting idea, but I also like the idea of no A/C in the House & Senate, they would recess early to avoid another DC summer.

Reps & Senators staying at home? Might be good to make the reps stay in their own districts where their voters could easily reach them.

conifermtman wrote: All laws should have a 10 year sunset provision in them. Government would be half the size it is now.

You fired a very rusty neuron in my brain. Years, maybe decades ago, I seem to recall Colorado passed a sunset law. Can anyone flush out the details or did I dream it?

But what if it's a good law that should be on the books for longer than 10 years?