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Stop the old battles

Our U.S. Congress is not a country club. It does not exist to promote individual careers, support lavish lifestyles or provide a flush retirement for our elected officials. We, the voters, put them there to represent us on matters we care about: education, health care and the economy. We want them to be patriots serving their country, not self-serving opportunists.

Our current Congress is the least productive in decades, most polarized since the post Civil War era, and has a 10 percent approval rating. What have the voters done to fix this? We keep re-electing incumbents. How is this going to change anything?

I feel that we can only make progress by moving forward. Congress, quit voting (more than 50 times) to repeal Obamacare, at a cost of nearly $1 million per attempt. Stop trying to take rights away from women and interfering with the right to vote.

These were all hard-fought battles, but are now the law of the land. Look forward.

Rose Rhoades

Spokane



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