I have to disagree with you on the term limits thing.
Having been there, I’ve seen how the paid staff attempts to lead elected officials into making decisions that don’t necessarily reflect the needs of their constituencies.
With new congress critters arriving every few years it would give the staff even more influence and power.
If they want to make the real decisions they should pound the pavement and knock on doors to get themselves elected instead of taking a staff job that pays 3 times what the elected official is paid.
I guess my disgust w/legislators who do little except raise funds to keep themselves in perpetual office blinded me to that situation.
(BTW Is it really true that their staffs are paid more than the office holder? I thought the Rep/Senator got an allotment for staff and office expenses.)
IG, I’ll be hornswaggled!!!! So in essence, the STAFF of our elected officials are really leading this country? We don’t know who they are, what they are in charge of, where their loyalties lay, what they look like? Yet we are led to believe that the elected official is the one making the decisions and laws? So in other words, we must know who, what they look like and their motivations are? I think it might be a good idea for each Senator and Crongresscritter to show us WHO their STAFF are.