To: The Washington State House, The Washington State Senate, and Governor Jay Inslee
Equal rights for all US Citizens
Equal rights for all citizens regarding the House and Senate. No more perks for insider trading, free student loans, life salary after only one term, separate healthcare, separate rules that clearly is not American Way. Support changes and needed reforms to equalize the playing field...or change our laws to equal theirs!
Why is this important?
Congress and the House have created over the years many rules and regulations that set them apart, and separate them legally from doing things the ordinary citizen would be jailed for.
constitutional amendments can only be made by convening a constitutional convention according to Article V of the Constitution. That's either 2/3 of both houses of Congress or by Petition from 2/3 of the states. No convention has been called since 1787 when the constitution was ratified (If I remember). The chances are that no state legislature would submit such a petition as you propose (for obvious reasons of self-interest), and if it would, getting the other 37 states to comply.
Right now there are about 34 or 35 states with petitions to hold a convention. Some have been there for decades, but can't get that 2/3rds. Here, take the time to check this out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Found this interesting, Children of congress member do not have to pay back their college student loans. How nice!
Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t 't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don 't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."
constitutional amendments can only be made by convening a constitutional convention according to Article V of the Constitution. That's either 2/3 of both houses of Congress or by Petition from 2/3 of the states. No convention has been called since 1787 when the constitution was ratified (If I remember). The chances are that no state legislature would submit such a petition as you propose (for obvious reasons of self-interest), and if it would, getting the other 37 states to comply.
Right now there are about 34 or 35 states with petitions to hold a convention. Some have been there for decades, but can't get that 2/3rds. Here, take the time to check this out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Found this interesting, Children of congress member do not have to pay back their college student loans. How nice!
Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t 't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don 't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."