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But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.