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Rep. Loretta Sanchez exposes Congress's lack of leadership
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| Posted by: Jim Hansen |
2/19/2006 |
Rep. Loretta Sanchez spoke at the annual Frank Church Banquet in Idaho last night. Her leadership in the US Congress gives her a unique perspective to ask some tough questions about why Congress is piling so much debt on American families, whether Americans are more secure with all the new Homeland Security bureacracy it has created, and how immigration policies can live up to the values we care about.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez spoke with candor and intellegence to three tough issuse that America is grappling with. Congress is saying one thing but is heading us in a dangerous direction.
Her strongest words were directed at the massive deficit that Congress keeps building, and the deceptive ways even more debt is incurred outside the budget. This country has never been so far in debt, and this is with low interest rates. Imagine how insecure our future will be when interest rates increase, Rep. Sanchez asked. What is so troubling is that Congress has completely abandoned its role as a separate branch of government and instead of asking tough questions and providing careful oversight of how America's funds are being spend, it is adding blithely adding $1.5 billion to the national deficit every week.
As a member of the Homeland Security Committee in the US House, Rep. Sanchez has been asking questions about what are the top sites in the US that are most at risk of attack by terrorists. The area she represents in California includes the largest shipping port in the US, as well as one of the largest tourist attractions in the world: Disneyland. After trying to get answers from the new agency that was created to improve internal communications among all parts of government, she found out they had Disneyland listed in the wrong county.
Rep. Sanchez also exposed some of the most insideous aspects of the debate going on around America's immigration policy. Instead of shaping policy that reflects the economic and social realities that immigrant families, employers and communities must actually deal with, many proposals being generated in Congress will simply make the problem even worse.
Rep. Sanchez calls it like she sees it. She is refreshingly honest in her approach and inspired people at the Frank Church dinner - many of whom have never been to a Democratic Party event - to become more involved.
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