Congress Spends More Time Dialing for Dollars Than on Legislative Work

Have you gotten a call from your political party asking for money lately? Fundraising is big business in Washington, D.C. So big, in fact, that your newly elected Congressional representative is expected to spend half of his or her working hours dialing for dollars at a secret phone bank near Capitol Hill.

You read that correctly. Actually, more than half their time, sometimes 6-8 hours a day, is spent not working on legislation. Instead, they are essentially full-time telemarketers who are told that their top priority is to raise obscene amounts of money dialing for dollars. All this, during business hours when they are supposed to be working for you, the taxpayer. Shocking, isn’t it?

http://www.termlimits.org/congress-fundraising-priority/

Unfortunately, it's old news.

Still no excuse for getting nothing done.

I don't really know...I get calls from telemarketers, sure, but they get a "Not interested and take my number off your call list" followed by me hanging up on them before I ever hear what they want

I am getting calls and out the a$$. I have been a donor in the past and this year I have donated about $500.00 to the Trump campaign so far....