The Senate Hates Young People and Trees...

...or at least that's what it seems like.

There's not much in the way of justification we can think of to explain why the Senate hasn't yet passed S.482, so the conclusion we've come to is that the Senate must have something against the interns, trees, and neglected computers the status quo is affecting.

Thankfully, there is a solution, and together, we can stop this cycle of abuse. See our PSA for more information.

We can end the thankless hours of tedium forced upon our nation's brightest interns. We can bring to a halt the needless printing of reams and reams of paper. And yes, we can put computers to their proper use in the Senate.

The Senate can pass S.482.

...now we can poke fun of the Senate for their ridiculousness -- and we have obviously have in this video -- but electronic filing of information is fundamental to transparency and our ability to hold senators accountable.

House candidates and presidential candidates have been filing their campaign finance reports electronically for almost 10 years. Why should Senate candidates be any different? And, why should we be denied the opportunity to find out who is funding Senate candidates' campaigns in a timely manner?

S.482 is the lowest of low-hanging fruit, and it's time the Senate picked this one off and let us move on to even more pressing transparency issues.

Follow Jake Brewer on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jake_brewer

Comments

[Vixter]

Great ad - very tongue-in-cheek, but oh so true (about saving the trees). I called the Post Office in St. Louis & asked to be taken off the junk mail list (ads for grocery stores, restaurants, etc). I was told that I could have all of my mail stopped - or none of it. So the solution offered by the postal worker was "get a large trash basket by the communal mail box". So much for saving trees, $$ for stamps, etc.

I am amazed that the Senate doesn't already file by computer - if for no other reason than to counter the old men afraid of technology image that it seems to show.

[IntellectuallyHonest]

Only certain young people. As long as it's someone else's son or daughter doing the fighting or the 'jobs Americans won't do,' everything is hunky-dorry. In the meantime, they send your money to Wall Street and the defense contractors. They enjoy superb health care that everyone else paid for but them. After they veto the health care legislation, they go to a French restaurant in Washington, DC, drink foreign wine and pretend that a repeat of 1789 is not on the way. They have their buddy Joe Lieberman in place to enact martial law, so they aren't afraid of anything. Most of the people that like to demonstrate are on meds anyway, like the kids that are spotted early on in primary and secondary school and are labeled as bipolar, so that anything even remotely resembling the turbulence of the 1960's can be nipped in the bud. All from the same people that got most of the draft deferments in the 60's.