CNN Anderson Cooper 360 July 2, 2014 00:09:00
Depersonalizes it. the reason people are sponsoring trips for powerful members of congress is they want to influence them. they want access, time with them. they want to give a nice trip. if that's not on their personal financial disclosure form but instead on this sort of data base on this website that you've got to know about to find, it depersonalizes it and for voters who are interested in understanding what perks or favors are being done for members of congress, it makes it difficult to find and if we are going to have self-governance, we need to have voters that can access that informati...
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