From the Daily News:
Congress is on vacation, but with some lawmakers it's hard to tell the difference.
Twenty-year Brooklyn incumbent Rep. Nydia Velazquez has not sponsored one bill, amendment or resolution this year.
Between her $174,000 salary and a staff that earned $898,211 last year, that's a stiff price for inactivity, congressional watchers said.
"In the words of another famous New Yorker, 'They got some 'splaining to do,'" said Norman Ornstein, a resident with the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit research center.
A Daily News survey found that Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan) ranks first among New York's 28 representatives for activity with 36 proposed bills, resolutions and amendments.
Maloney and Rep. Jerrold Nadler co-wrote last year's 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Nadler (D-Manhattan) tied for third in the entire delegation with 21 proposals.
20 comments:
Our tax dollars are goin right into the pockets, er, LIPS, of these miscreants.
Maybe they need the cash for all that badly placed botox...
How can you leave off Rep Joe Crowley? Didn't he write a bill to potentially introduce that would give Congress a 25% raise and exempt all Congress folks from residency in their home state?
On vacation?
Hell,
Congressman Ackerman has been "out to lunch" for decades.
But this developer's Congressman is always ready for an impromptu coffee break with Tommy Huang at a moment's notice!
When once asked to intervene on behalf of 4 condo owners
who just gotten bamboozled by the builder of the notorious "Vista Towers" in Flushing....his chief of staff Alan Gershuny (who had worked for Manes) told these poor folks that a donation of about $4,000 to Ackerman's re-election campaign fund would peak Gary's interest in their plight.
We've all heard of "pay to play".
We'll this is a blatant case of "pay to be represented"!
Why is this bloated crook still holding office and running the "Queens Tribune" from behind the scenes?
VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!!
THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS!
The number of sponsored bills is not necessarily a good indicator of productivity - for example, Michael Grimm is touted as a fiscally conservative yet very active newbie republican rep. He has sponsored a series of bs bills, at great cost to the taxpayers (cost to publish, later for enactment) while touting the need to cut spending...
ABOLISH THE LEGISLATURE THEY DONT DO ANYTHING ENOUGH IS ENOUGH GET OUT THE GUILLOTINE THE PITCHFORKS & TORCHES THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous # 4. Google "Article the First" that's why congress is so unrepresentative. The founders intended that congress represent much smaller districts. When's the last time anyone on this blog met their representative?
Anon. No. 7:
And replace them with what? You're supposed to have a legislative body as part of the government.
they do not have local townhall public meetings because they,(democrats) can not justify their systematic destruction of the U.S. CONSTITUTION.
the democrats can not over come the TAX ENOUGH ALREADY, TEA PARTY PATRIOTS .
we have a $14 trillion debt,given to us by tax and spend politicians and a 9.2 % unemployment (16% underemployment ).
the obamacare waivers to his pals have reached 148.
did you get your waiver yet ? why not.
Get rid of the incumbents and their parties, write in votes only!
OMG could these 2 be any homelier? If ugliness equaled votes these 2 should be President and Vice President by now!!!!
What fug-ugly mugs on these prolapsed "A" holes!
I've seen better faces on clocks!
Have they been giving out ugly sticks in NYC ?
Nydia Velazquez is just getting ready for having her district mapped into oblivion in the redistricting mandated by the 2010 census.
"OMG could these 2 be any homelier? If ugliness equaled votes these 2 should be President and Vice President by now!!!!"
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Well Toby and I take umbrage at this comment! We not only can stop a clock, we can make it run backwards!!!
20 years and can barely speak english!
Toby & Claire would certainly stop my...uh... clock (drop the "L") anytime and make me run backwards...far, far away from them...dare I risk going blind or turning to stone...or my clock (LOL) withdraw into permanent hiding.
Medusa, the Gorgon,
has nothing on any of these "beauties"!
WOW! Those facelifts are not doing Nydia any good at all. She's like an advertisement for bad plastic surgery.
Maloney gives shit to Queens - she built the tunnel for the suburbs and gave Dutch Kills the shaft.
Anytime there is some big development project or some big institution that has no real 'local ties' but 'good connections' she is front and center.
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