To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Recall Congress: amending the Constitution
The U.S. Constitution does not allow Americans to recall Members of Congress for failing to do their job. Members of Congress may have their services ended prior to their constitutionally-established terms of office only by their resignation or death, or if other Members of Congress vote for expulsion of an individual for unethical or illegal activity. However, a majority of American citizens cannot demand that a Member be recalled - this needs to be fixed.
Why is this important?
Congress is NOT doing their job. They do not negotiate, they do not know how to get past single-issue agendas, and they are controlled by special interests. They cannot pass a budget, which is perhaps the most fundamental task of our elected Representatives and Senators. Instead, they hold hostage 800,000 federal employees, withhold basic government services to all Americans, and put America's credit and credibility on the line, even as they bury our struggling economy at the rate of $1 billion per week. And, ironically, we elect and pay members of the House and Senate to do this. But this is NOT why we voted them into office. It's time to demand a recall vote, but the crafters of our Constitution did not authorize citizens' right to recall Members of Congress as they never envisioned that Congress would fail to do their job. The Constitution needs to be amended so that Americans do not have to be at the mercy of a Congress that is derelict in their collective duty.