How many members of the 109th congress are either:

a) in jail;
b) have had their offices or homes raided by the Feds;
c) under investigation by the Feds; or
d) have pre-emptively resigned from office to spend more time with their families?

The number has gotta be pretty high. Don Young has gotta be on that list.

This is very interesting information and the first I've read/heard about it. While people are fretting about flag lapel pins, these kinds of things are going on. Thank you, Brian Ross, for the great investigative journalism. It is greatly appreciated.

Politics as usual.

Young should be removed from office. It's not just bad to add language to a bill after the vote, but it's unconstitutional. He took a vow to uphold the Constitution, and this just urinates all over it.

What's most shocking is that no one cares that this happened. Where all so tired of the bull that wee just say, "One more thing."

It's not one more thing. It's a pattern of behavior and anti-American action by our nation's leaders and it has to stop or we will no longer have an America.

"...yes, unnamed committee aides for Young "corrected" the law after it had been passed by Congress. Young's office insisted that campaign donations were not the motive to make the change."

Sure, Young, an Alaska rep, was very concerned about roads in Florida because his snowbird constituents needed the interchange.

What! He gave me a contribution? I'm shocked. Truly shocked.

Let's finally get rid of earmarks and have public financing of campaigns. To help with the cost, we can require tv stations, who never bought the spectrum but only have a license, to cut the costs of TV ads for campaigns.

The guys on top may be rotten, but ABC has at least one reporter who cares about our government. Nice work, Justin Rood!

It great to see so many people finally beginning to seeing our government for what it has become, an entity of ###### who would just as soon sell their souls to the devil rather than get a job and earn an honest living. Thats the nature of a businessperson these days, and thats what a politician is, a businessperson, thats their origin, the nation was founded by businessmen. They are in it to make themselves very wealthy, its the egomaniac in them. Thats what it takes to be able to put yourself in front of so many people and ask/convince them to put their future into your hands. The best politican is the accidental politician, someone chosen by the people based his prior work, his/her legacy, instead today those who have the most money win. Guess where that money comes from, if you guessed special interest, you will someday be a part of the salvation of this country. You want to make a difference, you want to change things? What youll need to do is appeal to what makes them tick. MONEY! Consumer boycotts is what it going to take to get a politicians' attention. Stop burning your money like its the last thing youll ever do, because it will eventually be the last thing youll ever do. Our nation has been hijacked by corporate america, six people control all media in this nation. Thats control!!! For example, next time youre watching the news notice how all three local stations are airing the exact same meaningless story, almost word for word simultaneously, where is the substance, where are the stories that monitor our government. Its not that hard to notice it.

This has been out for days

There were 88 changes to the bill that were approved and had to be rewritten to include them all.

I can imagine it is a mess when they throw so many things on to a good bill just to get them passed, that it makes for some Huge headache of a mess to clean up the bill and write all the additives into, so it can be filed as one bill and look pretty.

Seeing issues were changed so many times, from one highway to the next then back to the first. it passed through a few hands to get all the ear marks and changes written in.

No wonder it get mixed up

Now if they would asked the plain old americans what to do, We would of told them long ago, One bill one issue. vote on one thing at a time.

silly politicians.

With bills being thousands of pages long it's a sure bet that NOBODY, not a single member of congress, has read the whole text of most bills that they vote on. With stuff like that happening, it's not surprizing that changes between vote and presidental signing don't happen more often.

THE HOLE NEWS IS A JOKE AND QA CONGRESS IS A CON AND THE NEWS IS A HE MIKE FOR THE RICH

"With bills being thousands of pages long it's a sure bet that NOBODY, not a single member of congress, has read the whole text of most bills that they vote on. With stuff like that happening, it's not surprizing that changes between vote and presidental signing don't happen more often."

How do you know they don't?

This is the first I've heard of this particular incident but not surprised to see it. Things like this keep happening because we don't hold these politicians accountable. If we kept our budgets the way that the government does, we would be in jail!

No surprise and nothing new. What would be a surprise, and really new, is if congress did anything about it. Same old same old, whether Democrats or Republicans control Congress. No matter who is elected to POTUS this year, it will be the same old stuff!

and yes, we return these crooks and clowns to office, term after term.

"the enemy is us"

Its quite simple.

If there want nothing wrong done, why are the perpetrators of the change remaining silent and the rest covering up for them.

Someone out there high up know who did it and many suspect, the opposition know who did it too.

...its just a matter of time before one of them jumps at the offer of federal crime immunity in order to stay out of prison.
Hang around, someone is going to jump first and safeguard his/her backside.

crooks, all crooks...

Congress. Supposedly the best and brightest minds our country can elect to office (or be bought by big business). Can't they figure out a 'chain-of-custody' accountability to follow each bill on a check-out, check-in basis? Please don't tell me they're working with actual pieces of paper!?! Ever heard of computer networks with document controls and security accountability? Welcome to the computer age!

We have a standard term for this type of procedure in our fine State.

It's called the 'Dishonest Taft.'

Basically, as the story goes, someone who we call Sneeky Sam. as in uncle sam, creeps up behind Lincoln while he sits at the Memorial Circle, distracting him, and Sam's friend Earnie the ear biter twists and bites The Bill before it reaches the Presidential Desk.

This story has been going around the traps for years. I couldn't tell you why Taft's name appears in this urban myth but like all great whodunnits you have to assume thier will be red herrings and the odd locked room.

Congress should change their procedures pertaining to bill passing. One item, one bill.All their conference committes can iron out differences; that is all that should be aloud.This could streamline legislation,