[kingu]

It is public service. It is not a career, it is not an economic path to prosperity. Maintain a ‘home’ in Washington DC? Bulldroppings. Rent a couch of one of your fellow congress critters, or go back to the old boarding house concept that served the city /very/ well.

Heck, if you could force every member of Congress out of their fenced homes of safety and back into the areas common, I’d bet you that ninety percent of the fertilizer that comes out of Congress would dry back up. They’d see, first hand, day in and day out, what their misguided ideals has brought forward.

[RockinRight]

If they have families, I have no issue with them wanting a private home of their own. If single or just a spouse, sure, have them in a common area.