http://www.nationalcenter.org/ContractwithAmerica.html"FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;"
Nope, haven't done that.
"SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;"
Nope, not that either.
"THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;"
Did they do that? I highly doubt it.
"FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;"
I don't think they did this either.
"FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;"
Unknown - anybody know?
"SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;"
HA HA HA HA HA ohhhh please stop that one's hilarious.
"SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;"
Nope.
"EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting."
Also no.
And then they list a bunch of legislative proposals, and I doubt even half of them were even brought up for debate.
Seriously, this is a big deal! If they rode the Contract (on) America to victory in '94, why can't we use it to take 'em down in '04?