No answer from Congressman Chaka Fattah's office

Members of Congress are becoming telemarketers, according to a 60 minutes story.  Members of Congress are encouraged to put in several hours a day calling the public to raise money. According to The Stop Act website, The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee put out a schedule recommending four hours of call time a day for members of Congress.  While only recommending two hours of Congressional work.

60 Minutes story

The Stop Act (website)

The Stop Act is designed to prevent members of Congress from calling the public to raise money.  US Congressman David Jolly (R), from Florida, introduced The Stop Act.  According to an article from Jolly's website, he believes the act is needed because many members of Congress spend more time raising money than doing the job they were elected to do.

David Jolly article about The Stop Act

When Congressman Chaka Fattah's office was contacted, there was no response.  We initially called the office on April 28, 2016 and sent an email explaining our request.  We were looking for Fattah's stance on The Stop Act and how many hours a day/week Fattah spends calling for dollars.  We were also trying to find out if Fattah publicly objected to the amount of time the members are expected to spend fundraising.

Fattah's Communications Director, Debra Anderson was contacted via phone and email with hopes to find information about The Stop Act and no response was received.

Congressman Chaka Fattah 

2nd District of Pennsylvania

In my opinion it is alright to raise money as a Congressman but they should have their staff do these calls.  People in America are complaining about lack of jobs.  Here you go, members of Congress should hire teams of people to handle these calls.  After all the citizens elected these officials to handle business not make phone calls.