I saw someone make this statement on the web. Don’t they know who they work for? The “they” ,that they are talking about is POLITICIANS. Particularly those in Congress. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/election-us-2020-54696386 According to this article in 2020 Federal Presidential and Congressional candidates spend 14 BILLION – TWICE AS MUCH as was spent on the 2016 election.
That doesn’t include the 4.1 billion that was spent on lobbyist in 2022. That is 11+ million/day, to help influence the 535 members of Congress. That averages out to abt $11,000/day – 7 days a week on each member of Congress. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/01/federal-lobbying-spending-reaches-4-1-billion-in-2022-the-highest-since-2010/
With all those $$ flowing into election campaigns, and $$ to influence members of Congress by Lobbyists, who believes that any letters, emails, phone calls to member of Congress will influence their decisions in any way?
Congress basically functions on a seniority system. Both the House & Senate have numerous committees. Each committee has a chairman, who will belong to the political party of the majority of the particular party and a co-chair that belongs to the political party that is the majority. The balance of each committee will reflect the percentage of the political party in the majority.
For anything to potentially become a law, it starts with a bill being introduced by one of the members of a the appropriate committee. The chairman may nor may not bring up a bill for a vote. If the chairman does not bring a bill up for a vote. It becomes DOA. I saw it reported that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) introduced 20 bills during her first 2-yr term in the House, and none was brought up by chairman of the committee for a vote.
If a bill get voted out of committee, the bill goes to the Speaker of the House or Head of the Senate. Each can chose to bring the bill to the floor for a vote or not. If one or both of those refuses to bring the bill to the floor for a vote, the bill DIES!
If the bill is passed by the House and the Senate, it is then sent to the President to sign it into law.
The President can sign the bill into law or veto it. If the President VETOES the bill, then the Senate and House has the option to override the President’s veto with a 2/3 vote by each. If the Senate or the House fails to vote to override the bill, the bill becomes law.
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They know exactly who they work for; the rich & the corporations who buy them.
knowing very little about politics,,what i have seen happening is ,,NO,,, some,,a small %%% DO NOT THINK THEY WORK FOR US…THEY WORK FOR THEMSELVES,,THEIR PERSONAL INTEREST AND A SMALL MINORITY,,USUALLY THOSE YTPE THAT WOULD FLIP ON GOD,,,IF IT MEANT MONEY,,,THEY CARE NOTHING ABOUT THE LESS FORTUNATE,,ONLY THEMSELVE AND THEIR BANK ACCT…U KNOW,,,I WAS WATCHEN MIRACLE OF 34 ST,,AND I FORGOT A VERY IMPORTANT SCENE,,,WHEN KRIS KRINGLE WAS BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE COURT HOUSE AFTER BEING FORCIBLE ,”COMMITTED” TO HAPPYDALE ASYLUM,,,SOMEONE SAID,,SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT,”THEY LOCK UP A MAN,,WHO REPRESENT ,GIVING,GOOD WILL,,KINDNESS,,”AND THEY ALLOW THE DECEITFUL,THE LIARS,THE CRUEL INHUMANE,,TO MAKE AND JUDGE PEOPLE,FREELY,””,,I BELIEVE THAT MOVIE WAS 1934??NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED HAS IT,,,THE GOOD,THE KIND,THE HUMANE ARE AT A CONSTANT BATTLE W/,”EVIL”,,,,,,,CORRUPT POLITICIAN WHO CARE NOT FOR OUR WEAK,SICK ETC,,,CArE NOTHING ABOUT BEING GOOD DECENT FOLK,,,THEY ONLY USE THEIR POLITICAL POSITION FOR HarM TO OTHERS AND REWARDS TO THEMSEVES,,,,ALWAYS,,,,,AND IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE THE DAWN OF A GOVERNMENT BODY,,SOME ARE EVEN TRYING TO GET AGENDA/LAWS PASSED,,BY ,,BY- PASSING A CHAIRMEN ALLLL TOGE5HER,,,,JMOMARYW,,,,,,,,,
Yes, it is a complicated process. That is why the propaganda against drugs that they are running on to create all the anti-opioid bills is the primary thing that we should address. The fact that no drug causes addiction, and that the war on drugs was designed to disenfranchise minorities is primary. To do nothing simply allows the propaganda to continue. And it takes 50 years for propaganda to run its course. So that means opioids won’t be accepted until 2050, and I predict that they won’t be in the treatment of pain by 2030. We must fight the propaganda with the truth.