Should Senators chair committees that award defense contracts to their spouses companies?

Question

http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html

This double standard of democrats being allowed to do anything and republicans being forced from office for the same is getting tiresome. How about not letting anyone vote on any contract going to companies/corporations they or their immediate family own? A congress that can justify insect damage to crops in Neveda needs to be on the Iran/Afghanistan aid bill, should be able to figure out how to write legislation to cover this conflict of intrest. Note a sizeable amount of these contracts are awarded without bidding process. But after six years in charge she has stepped down, how ethical! We need a bipartisan standard, not one that removes no crooks from either side of the aisle, but allows no crooks of either party to remain in congress. What you think?

Answer 1

We the People allow these things because we do not demand laws against this. And then make sure they are followed to the tee.
It takes lots of people writeing, emails and phone calls to get these done with the threat that if they laws are not done then you will take them out of office.

Answer 2

I agree.