Room for improvement

Sen. Patty Murray is good at one thing – voting how she’s told to by the Democratic machine. She voted for the health care bill against all reason. She voted for financial regulation, although it will do nothing to prevent another financial meltdown.

A few days ago she did as Harry Reid told her and voted against repealing the 1099 reporting requirements on small business. This insert into the health care bill requires small businesses to report to the IRS annual purchases from any contractor above $600. This will impose monumental costs on the only entities that can rally our country – small businesses.

Murray surely knows that maintaining the 1099 requirement is onerous for her constituents and the state economy. But she does as told.

She boasts about helping vets and Boeing, but she’s not saying much about the other 99 percent of her votes that have been against our interest. When I’ve e-mailed her asking for her position on an issue, I always get a “canned” response that she is looking closely at the issue and will vote with my interests in mind. Then she does the opposite. Is this the best we can do? I think not.

Hal R. Dixon

Spokane