That will never happen though. It's recently been shown that no matter how popular/unpopular the legislation is to the average american, there's a flat 30% chance it will pass. For the 1%'ers though, if they don't like a piece of legislation, there's virtually no chance it will pass, but if they like it, there's up to a 60% chance it will pass. The bottom line is that nothing the average american does affects congress.
In 1970 the Legislation Reorganization Act of 1970 passed. This piece of legislation forces committee voting records of congress to be publicly displayed. Because of this, lobbyists can now see and verify that congressmen are pushing their agenda otherwise the money doesn't flow. It's no exaggeration to say that lobbyists are in the gallery, within eyesight, giving cues to how congressmen should vote.
It's counter-intuitive for most people to think that they should not want to know how their congressperson votes on legislation but that's exactly what's holding congress back from voting their conscious. We insist and protect a persons right to vote in privacy for a large list of reasons that all boil down to ensuring an honest and fair accounting of the will of the people. But we don't hold those same lofty goals up for congress since that bill passed. And how do you put the genie back in the bottle when at the first whiff of doing so would bring in an army of lobbyists to shut it down. Remember elites who don't like a bill can effectively drive its chances of passing down to zero, and this would be a piece of legislation that affects all lobbyists.
In 1970 the Legislation Reorganization Act of 1970 passed. This piece of legislation forces committee voting records of congress to be publicly displayed. Because of this, lobbyists can now see and verify that congressmen are pushing their agenda otherwise the money doesn't flow. It's no exaggeration to say that lobbyists are in the gallery, within eyesight, giving cues to how congressmen should vote.
It's counter-intuitive for most people to think that they should not want to know how their congressperson votes on legislation but that's exactly what's holding congress back from voting their conscious. We insist and protect a persons right to vote in privacy for a large list of reasons that all boil down to ensuring an honest and fair accounting of the will of the people. But we don't hold those same lofty goals up for congress since that bill passed. And how do you put the genie back in the bottle when at the first whiff of doing so would bring in an army of lobbyists to shut it down. Remember elites who don't like a bill can effectively drive its chances of passing down to zero, and this would be a piece of legislation that affects all lobbyists.