Fred Wertheimer Quotes

You have parties going on all the time. You have members, when they are thrown in their honor in effect hosting their own huge expensive events, and you have corporations and special interests picking up the tab and getting the favoritism and the relationship with the members of Congress as a result. - Fred Wertheimer

You don't see too many of these privately funded trips to Muncie, Ind., in the winter or the Florida Keys in the summer. - Fred Wertheimer

We strongly believe this is not the problem caused by one man; this is a problem caused by one system. This is about the way money is used by lobbyists and their clients on Capitol Hill at the expense of the American people. - Fred Wertheimer

To effectively address the scandals in Washington, which revolve around the multiple ways lobbyists use money to buy influence, Congress must reform the lobbying, campaign finance and ethics rules, and create new means for enforcing these rules. - Fred Wertheimer

This week we are in the middle of a bidding war with various reform proposals being announced by Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress. This is a case where you are going to have to read the fine print to make judgments about the effectiveness of the proposals being announced. - Fred Wertheimer

This is a classic example of why the ethics rules have to be reformed. The Scotland trip was a trip to play golf, pure and simple, and private interests should not be allowed to finance those kinds of trips and gain influence with members in return. - Fred Wertheimer

This is a case where the fine print really makes a difference. - Fred Wertheimer

This bill is nothing to write home about. Certainly it is not an appropriate response to the concerns of the American people about the corruption and lobbying scandals in Washington. - Fred Wertheimer

This bill is not going to cut it and it's not going to fool the public. The Senate was looking inward today. - Fred Wertheimer

They took an already unacceptable bill and turned it into a charade. - Fred Wertheimer

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