U.S. Senators Angry With the Amount of Celebrity Participation In Congress

 Recently, many U.S. Senators have grown impatient with the amount of celebrities who have been called to testify at congressional hearings.  When the government was first put in place, only the people who were elected into office had the ultimate say when making important decisions.  There were no celebrities influencing public opinion or bringing light to cases that might not need to be that publicized.  In recent years, however, this has greatly changed.   Julia Roberts, Michael J. Fox, and one member of the 90’s boy band, The Backstreet Boys are a few celebrities who have been present at recent congressional hearings.  It is not that these Senators do not want the cases to be publicized, but they do not believe that many celebrities have the qualifications and knowledge needed to make decisions that will, in turn, effect the entire country.  Some say that celebrities can represent the opinions of the general public.  This however, is not the case.  Celebrities do not have to deal with many of the problems that the average American must face.  Many Senators believe that the celebrities who speak at the congressional hearings are not worried about the well being of the country and it’s citizens.  They feel that celebrities are solely attempting to push their own agendas in order to make themselves more widely known.