http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/flavia/THE NEXT TIME your boss asks you to turn in your time sheet, or says you forgot to punch in, tell him, "Hey, I don't have to. Congress doesn't."
How do you think your boss would react? Face red? Fist clenched? Maybe a couple of words of profanity coming from pursed lips?
Of course, the boss would have every right to react that way, if you, the employee, refused to account for your time. Yet every day, members of Congress do... what? We simply don't know, because unlike the rest of the working world, they refuse to disclose how they spend their time to the ones who pay their salaries - namely you. Your tax dollars are what lines their pockets with healthy six-figure salaries. But do you really know what your money is paying for?
Two freshman members of the new Congress are seeking to change the way their offices do business, bringing them in line with the rest of the working world. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) are putting their daily schedules on their website so all of their bosses can see what they do all day. Looking at Tester's site, I can tell you that on Feb. 6, just 24 hours before I penned this piece, Tester met with the secretary of the Air Force, the Dried Pea and Lentil Council, and Tom and Peggy Oates of Billings. Nothing earth-shattering there. But, if I were from Montana, it would be reassuring to know what Tester is doing, since I pay his salary.
See examples at their links. Love it!http://tester.senate.gov/schedule_entry.cfm?id=269005&http://gillibrand.house.gov/sunlight.shtml
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