[thoughtomator]

Yeah like if 435 of them don't work, 600 would? Sounds like an awful waste of money to pay even more people to be corrupt.

[cordeiro]

600 more people wandering aimlessly around Capitol Hill? There's enough gridlock up there already.

[pepsionice]

I actually had the opposite idea...instead of 435...lets cut them down to 120. I'm even willing to double their pay in the process. And once we get it down to 120...we make a simple rule that you can only divide up the state districts by counties...which must touch. And the final change...ensure they meet for only two periods out of the year....a spring 60 day period, and a fall 100 day period. This would curtail the Sunday talk show routine to just senators....and start to make things more interesting. Representatives would then actually work and get things done during their brief episodes of attendance.