We have concentrated so much power in Washington that no matter how virtuous a pol is when he arrives, they are soon corrupted. Political power corrupts everything and everyone it touches.
“We, the people” get duped over and over again by having our government and special interests in one concentrated are for most of their “reign”.
This is 21st century. Send ALL politicians back to their states and districts. Every last one of them. The give them “Skype,” “Go to my PC”, “Go to Meetings”, ability to teleconference.
Anything less than this is putting the government at peril and really shafting “we, the people...”