The system is so complex that they couldn’t begin to understand it with just two two-year terms.
The House needs to go to a four-year election cycle so members can do their jobs instead of constantly running for reelection.
I do think the complexity needs to be reduced, but a Congressperson can’t fend off a bureaucrat’s request without knowledge and experience of his own.
And therein lies the rub: While members of congress come and go, the office staffs rarely change. It is they who write the bills that the representatives propose and sponsor, and thus it is ultimately they who control what the laws say. The staffs need to leave when the rep they work for leaves. If they’re going to be penning the laws that get passed, then they need to be accountable to the public.
If the system is that complex, then it is the system that needs reformation first. Then rework the staffing side so we don’t end up with entrenched (and generally liberal) staffers doing all the real work of writing laws. Congress passes far too many laws as it is. If that pace were to slow down, then maybe representatives wouldn’t *need* huge staffs of unelected bureaucrats to write their bills.
Understood.
The bureaucracy is also one of the things that needs shaking up!