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Lee's Summit, MO —
Of the thousands of Congressional bills submitted during the past decade in Washington, only a minority, about 5 percent, ever receives a roll-call vote and is passed.
Many of our 535 men and women of Congress admit that they do not always read all, or even parts, of the numerous bills before them. Such dereliction ignited the patriotic drive of Jerrol LaBaron, a California filmmaker to do something substantive to improve Washington’s method of turning bills into laws.
I met the 48-year-old purpose-driven businessman through his Internet InkTip company that aids screenwriters.
He gathered some non-partisan cohorts, created a website, started the Honor In Office organization, initiated a petition drive, a fund-drive and produced a documentary all focusing on improving Congress.
LaBaron’s acclaimed documentary, “Fools On The Hill” documents the inept present situation and is now being disseminated throughout the country mostly via the Internet.
LaBaron notes, “No citizen, whether liberal or conservative, wants a poorly thought out law passed.”
Honor In Office is to remind politicians to do the jobs for which they were hired.
Incidentally, the current salary for all senators and members is $174,000. The salary for the speaker is $223,500 while the majority and minority leaders is $193,400.
His five-part petition pebble has become an avalanche with more than 4,000 signatures. Some of the petition goals include: seeing the final version of the bill well before the vote, no more earmarks, taking a bite out of crime by eliminating buying, trading or selling of votes, observing the Bill of Rights and that no one is untouchable or above the law.
While many in Congress hardly know of LaBaron, they will on June 12, for he’s planning a citizens’ “March on Washington” to deliver his petition.
He expects to achieve the Herculean task of garnering 50,000 petition signatures a week leading up to the Washington march.
“Read The Bill” is the organization’s rallying cry, and they truly believe their plea will bear results.
LeBaron invites anyone who believes in his non-partisan quest of getting integrity, honor, honesty and common sense back into government to visit the website, Honorinoffice.org.
If LaBaron’s Washington march is successful and Congress abides by the five-part petition, maybe, just maybe, the embarrassing national Congressional approval rating will rapidly climb above it abysmal 13 to 19 percent rating.
I give you President John Adams’ toast: Independence forever.
Of the thousands of Congressional bills submitted during the past decade in Washington, only a minority, about 5 percent, ever receives a roll-call vote and is passed.
Many of our 535 men and women of Congress admit that they do not always read all, or even parts, of the numerous bills before them. Such dereliction ignited the patriotic drive of Jerrol LaBaron, a California filmmaker to do something substantive to improve Washington’s method of turning bills into laws.
I met the 48-year-old purpose-driven businessman through his Internet InkTip company that aids screenwriters.
He gathered some non-partisan cohorts, created a website, started the Honor In Office organization, initiated a petition drive, a fund-drive and produced a documentary all focusing on improving Congress.
LaBaron’s acclaimed documentary, “Fools On The Hill” documents the inept present situation and is now being disseminated throughout the country mostly via the Internet.
LaBaron notes, “No citizen, whether liberal or conservative, wants a poorly thought out law passed.”
Honor In Office is to remind politicians to do the jobs for which they were hired.
Incidentally, the current salary for all senators and members is $174,000. The salary for the speaker is $223,500 while the majority and minority leaders is $193,400.
His five-part petition pebble has become an avalanche with more than 4,000 signatures. Some of the petition goals include: seeing the final version of the bill well before the vote, no more earmarks, taking a bite out of crime by eliminating buying, trading or selling of votes, observing the Bill of Rights and that no one is untouchable or above the law.
While many in Congress hardly know of LaBaron, they will on June 12, for he’s planning a citizens’ “March on Washington” to deliver his petition.
He expects to achieve the Herculean task of garnering 50,000 petition signatures a week leading up to the Washington march.
“Read The Bill” is the organization’s rallying cry, and they truly believe their plea will bear results.
LeBaron invites anyone who believes in his non-partisan quest of getting integrity, honor, honesty and common sense back into government to visit the website, Honorinoffice.org.
If LaBaron’s Washington march is successful and Congress abides by the five-part petition, maybe, just maybe, the embarrassing national Congressional approval rating will rapidly climb above it abysmal 13 to 19 percent rating.
I give you President John Adams’ toast: Independence forever.
