Tom Bigler writes in the Centre Daily Times Leader:

"There are several proposals designed to help wipe the slate clean. One goal is campaign finance reform. A major step in that reform aims to seriously regulate limits on the amount of money that an individual or a private enterprise can contribute to a candidate. There is even talk of reducing the amount that may be spent according to the class of offices that are at stake in a given election (presidential, senatorial, legislative, etc.).

While limits currently exist, they are not enforced. We have had enough of Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay and others of their ilk.

Another proposal is to extend that regulation to the individual lobbyists doing such things as listing the individuals as lobbyists, which elected officials they have seen, the client on whose behalf they are lobbying, and the size and the amount or value of any gift they have given or promised any legislator.

Admittedly, these approaches interfere to a degree with what those who are employed as public servants claim to be their private business to enforce. However, stiff regulation and its enforcement are ways in which members of the Congress can really clean house."