Conflicts of interest should be grounds for impeachment. Banking and Currency Committee members now are allowed to be directors of banks — a shocking state of affairs. The best way to ensure that this cannot happen is to require com- plete financial disclosure by members of Congress. Every- thing they earn and every business or professional connection they keep should be fully public. As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Every- one else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby,
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