...I'd enact my own lobbying reform bill, because I certainly don't trust the elected representatives who are being paid off now by lobbyists to have anyone's interests but their own at heart. The new 2006 Suemac Campaign Finance Reform and Lobbying Reform Bill provisions would include:

* No contribution of any kind more than $100. And only one per....per individual, per corporation, per family.
* Any corporation caught donating to politicians or candidates would be forced to pay an immediate "politics tax" of 10% of the CEO's salary. Each additional fine is another 10% of the CEO's salary.
* No Congressman can work as a lobbyist for a minimum of 10 years after leaving office.
* Once hired as a lobbyist, every lobbyist must ride around D.C. on a tricycle so he/she can be identified easily. Parking? You're on your own, like everyone else.
* No meals, lunches, dinners, gifts worth more than $25 can be given to any elected officeholder.. No sports, no golf, no titty bars, no cars, no taxi cab rides, no NOTHING.
* Congress is hereby limited to being in session no more than 6 months of the year. Any more than that, and they're dangerous.
* Every Congressperson's salary is $40,000 a year. And they have to pay for health insurance like every other person in America. And dental insurance. And contribute to their own 401-K. And parking. And housing. And car insurance. And tuition.
* If there are ANY doubts about any donation or contribution or act that could be construed as fishy, the final determination will be made by: a public school teacher from Ohio, a rancher from Montana, a kindergartender from Maine and a truck-stop waitress from Florida. THEM's the most ethical, hard-working, normal people I can think of, and that's what lobbying reform needs: hard-working NORMAL people deciding what's proper and what's not.