Congressman David Jolly Seeks To Ban "Dialing for Dollars"

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U.S. Rep. David Jolly (R-Clearwater) introduced a bill earlier this year to bar federal elected officials from personally asking individuals for campaign contributions.

The bill, known as The STOP Act, has only six co-sponsors but is prompting a national debate on the amount of time members of Congress spend calling people for contributions.

Jolly, who is now running for Senate and has voluntarily refused to make fundraising calls himself, estimates that his colleagues in the House and the Senate spend 20 to 30 hours a week fundraising.

"If your priority as a voter is immigration reform, or tax reform, or national security, transportation," Jolly told CBS4's Jim DeFede on Facing South Florida, "you're frustrated because you see a Congress not addressing those issues. Well when I tell you they are not addressing them because they are not even on the job, they're not even in Congress, they are across the street at party headquarters shaking people down for money, it should infuriate the public."