A new bill has been introduced to have members of Congress drug tested once a term. The Washington Examiner reports:
Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins introduced a resolution this week that would subject all sitting members of the House and Senate to random drug testing.
The measure lays out a proposal under which all lawmakers would have to face a “random drug test once per term.”
Lawmakers would be told if a positive result is found, and those results would also go to the House and Senate Ethics Committees for review.
Lawmakers who refuse to be tested would be named and shamed by the ethics committees. The resolution also says lawmakers themselves would have to reimburse Congress for the cost of the testing.
Although drug tests are of questionable value, if anyone ought to be subjected to them, those making the laws and answering to the people should be the first.
Random testing should be done without any notice as I am feeling sure they would find some guilty. However, it has to be a surprise so they can’t get themselves clean before a test.
They should be given drug tests and examined for mental competency as well as their general health. The results should me made public for the voters.
Totally Agree with this. We have more than one congressperson who very often shows signs of senility and dementia. We still are needing to drain the swamp! Also, some of the new members of Congress need to be reigned in or kicked out of Congress!
If only this could be implemented. The American people would be much better off!
While were at it lets check their bank accounts for large amounts of Lobby money. I understand there are lots of votes for sale on both sides of the isle. They don’t enter politics as poor lawyers and come out millionaires by being frugal and sleeping in their offices. It’s time for term limits and a Convention Of The States.
That is exactly what needs to be done. Regardless of political affiliation. Both sides are dirty.
Mental competency? 535 people would be out of work.
They should have to get drug tested before any vote. Have annual audit of their finances and tax returns.
Democrats are in serious trouble, they are already being paid off by the drug cartels to keep the wall out, now this.
the democrates ? no they want their drugs espically pelosi finestine and whats her name pocahonis.
Why bother they will find and use loopholes just like today they have taxpayers funds they use to defend their sexual harassment cases and also pay their prostitution visits! So You People of America are just as at fault as they are just by consent doing Nothing about it and just complaining ! The good people of Iceland dragged corrupt politicians and made citizens arrest to rid corruption in their government , but Americans have blind patriotism to their governments corruption just by allowing it, they keep believing their bought out biased medias propaganda LIES that any country is too big to fight or fail and that any third party votes is wasted besides the status quo of corruption of the rhinos and the anti-American democrats and the medias!
Does anyone in their right mind think Congress as a whole would vote to have Drug Test, Term Limits or anything even close to it? Look they legislate law that state “they”can opt out, ie Oblaimer Care, and someone thinks they will vote to hinder anything they do? What is needed is a Constitutional Amendment where the people have the say of what needs to be done. In my 86 years of which 68 of them I was honored to vote, only three times can I remember Term limits being considered, but since it was not Abortion financing legislation it got shelved before it got started.
Convention of States, I know that some people in congress are for it. I don’t remember which ones, but push your lawmaker to support it, to get it on your state ballots.
Bad, bad, bad idea. That opens up the Constitution for a whole lot of leftist mischief. The left would be overjoyed to get their hands on the constitution. Yes, I know they’ve been tyrannically “amending” the constitution for years by way of left wing activist judges, but now they could do it legally and quicker.
I want term limits! No more than ten years in office. If you are elected to congress you cannot run for senate after that and vice versa. Once you leave office your benefits stop and you go back into the fold of the American citizens.
They need to be tested once a year at random or every six months.
Also, we need to have a branch that polices the Congress and the Senate. If they make, propose any law that violates the constitution or violates their oath of office this branch will have the ability to immediately remove them from office and place them in prison (seeing as violating your oath of office is already a Federal Offense but you have to be voted out by the Senate or the House).
*if they make/propose any law….
Jake, your ideals are awesome, you need to submit that to someone, A different Branch to oversee Congress and the Senate, a way for the people to have more control. thanks
That probably explains the Demon Rats votes!!! Especially AOC!!!
I would hope that we know who we are electing to Congress and any other seat in the government, including nominated positions, from the WH to the SC. I believe Congress passing the bill on marywuana was tainted with users that have been using for as long as the first attempts at legalizing drugs and going against all negative study results for decades. This is a typical example of corruption that takes place in situations such as this.
It needs to be random testing and maybe more than once a term.
Dick sorry its medicade that will let drugs pass on test depending on the raise and citizenship .Illegals are tested and I know many blacks who aren’t . Its a one sided rule. Most laws apply to whites only.
I would like to see published: A list of all the perks members of congress and their immediate families get.
I was floored when I read Michelle Obamas mother was a well paid baby sitter while living board free in the White house and retired with a substantial pension. All on the taxpayers dime.
Sounds fair to me. Most employees working in the private sector including sports figures, public servants truck drivers etc. will be tested without warning and if any drugs found in their tests they’re either fired or must get drug rehabilitation. These members of our Congress are expected to be above the average citizen’s standards.
I was required to be drug tested by my employer periodically. I was required to submit a urine sample while the nurse watched me collect it. I asked if she was required to watch while I collected the sample, and she said yes.
I asked her if she was she required to giggle while she watched me, and she didn’t answer.
‘Bout time!
This should be like any business I think that the SC if they have an accident should be included. Lets see if they are on the straight and narrow. Maybe we should include the appeals courts and the federal courts they work for us.
How about also making it mandatory that any elected official accused of sexual assault that has paid victims from their Congressional multi-million dollar sex slush fund revealed to the public… if any payment is made to a victim the representative should be required to step down…
YESS !!
I’m all for it.
In addition to making all elected officials take a mandatory drug test each year perhaps it also time to propose a 28th Amendment to the Constitution that would make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does no apply equally to all Senators and members of Congress.
It’s also time to stop the children of our Congress and Senate from being exempt in payments of student loans and STOP these elected representatives from exempting themselves from the laws they pass…
I wholeheartedly agree as elected members of congress should not be exempt from any laws they pass regarding unelected citizens. Our forefathers regarded congress as citizens representing citizens without exemptions for themselves. How did we get past that?
I agree, totally. Thank you for an honest response to a most significant problem with power hungry socialistic undertones in most democratic decisions. The motto is power and money for elitist factions of the US government. Trump is the only one to carry on with barriers of deceit and hate to represent the wants and needs of our citizens who have not been mesmerized or indoctrinated by such people as Soros and others. Thank you.
There should be a an addendum to that bill also, if you are on public assistance you should be required to do the same random testing! I go to work and I’m required and subject too a random test and that just so I can work.
Dick all drawing tax dollars and medicare are tested for drugs every time they see the doctor its Medicare that doesn’t want drug tests done. I get tested 4 times a year.