From Knoxville News:
“When we sent the United States Senate a resolution (urging some action be taken), they read that resolution,” he said. “Now they don’t even read them. They just pitch them.”
Washington has grown ever more irresponsible and inattentive to state government interests, he said, and has done so on a bipartisan basis.
“One party is just about as sorry as the other up there (in Washington). It’d be about a tossup,” he said.
To change the situation, Niceley said, legislatures need to play political “hard ball.”
“The future of the free world is at stake,” he said. “The ball needs to be hard.”Legislators should annually agree on a list to be sent Congress outlining “what they should do and what they shouldn’t do,” he said.
“The state Legislature has a right to re-district (U.S. House districts) every two years, if we want to,” he said. “We need to start that…. (showing each congressman) a picture of your (re-districted) map if you don’t pay attention.”