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Congress should get the job done.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

Congress is not an ATM.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.