Peter Schweizer’s Congressional Reforms

1. Ban the solicitation or receipt of campaign contributions while Congress is in session in Washington.
2. Place an outright ban on contributions and solicitations involving lobbyists or governmental contractors.
3. Restrict the ability of the Permanent Political Class (PPC) to convert campaign money into a lifestyle subsidy. Loaning money to your campaign is fine as long as you don’t collect interest.
4. Ban leadership PACs.
5. Restrict the ability of the PPC to extort money for their families through political power. We need to ban immediate family members (spouses and children) from registering as lobbyists. Period. We also need to prevent members of Congress from putting family members on the payroll.

Source: Extortion. How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets (2013) by Peter Schweizer.

Good ideas but I wonder how many in Congress will actually embrace these reforms. Probably not a whole lot since most are addicted to the money. And the power.