Congressional Republicans Turn to American Citizens for Ideas

Congressional Republicans unveil www.AmericaSpeakingOut.com in an effort to hear ideas and insights of everyday Americans on crafting common-sense solutions to the problems facing our country.  In their own words:

This site was developed by House Republicans as part of an official effort to increase the dialogue between Americans and their Congress. Here, Americans are provided a new platform to share their priorities and ideas for a national policy agenda…

Congressman Mike Pence describes the initiative: “We believe the best ideas, the best articulation of those principles comes from Americans and so as we build a governing agenda for this Congress, and we want to be listening to the American people which is a pretty new idea in the last year and a half here on Capitol Hill.”

This 1:20min video from www.AmericaSpeakingOut.com explains more.