Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingreeis an American politician. She is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Maine's 1st congressional district since 2009. The district includes most of the southern part of the state, including Portland and Augusta...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 April 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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This is an enormous problem for our democracy and it really is at a crisis point. More and more people are looking at this level of corruption in Washington, in their home states and they're saying why should I bother to vote.
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I don't need to remind you about the scandals. You have unique power to restore our faith in elected leaders.
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The Ethics Committee has been inoperative for essentially all of this Congress and shows no signs of addressing numerous matters that have been and are before the committee.
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The danger is that they are going to talk about a variety of proposals that will look more like window dressing than an institutional change in the way they do business.