McKelvey For Congress

A major area of agreement between liberals and conservatives is the wastefulness of pork-barrel spending, yet amending a bill by attaching unrelated spending to it remains a common way to buy votes in Washington.

Though term limits and balanced budgets would reduce this problem, Jim McKelvey would rather see it stamped out entirely.

Currently, individual Congresspersons are able to amend bills right up until it's time to vote on them.  Not only does this make it practically impossible for your representatives to have read the final bill before voting on it, it's one of the primary avenues of political favors in Washington.  So far, career politicians have refused to change this practice because of how easily it lets them add amendments that are simply favors guaranteed to buy a vote, or add unrelated spending to a bill they believe is guaranteed to become law.

Jim supports a "one issue, one vote" approach.  One simple change to the rules would force Congress to pass or reject a bill based on its merits, and not whose pockets it may line with taxpayer dollars.