Part of what the K Street Project was about was making lobbyists indispensable to Congress because of the money they were raising.
We are really disappointed. For Congress to produce any kind of credible reform, they need an enforcement mechanism.
We don't want members of Congress to just sit behind their desks all the time.
We don't want members of Congress sitting behind their desk all day long.
The states are way out ahead of Congress on this. This is not some kind of crazed, untested idea. This is going on in the states. ... It's bringing accountability to state government and that's what we need here.
Congress has kind of proven it's not capable of policing itself.
The ultimate solution is public financing of campaigns. All this is based on the constant quest for campaign cash that members of Congress are always on. If you get rid of that, members of Congress will be much less susceptible.