Another good reason to repeal the 17th Amendment, reinstate Article 1, Section 3 AND make serving in Congress a NON PAID job, with no perks at all.
Congress people need to have experience in the real world and have enough money (or a spouse working) to pay their household bills for a couple years while they serve FOR FREE in Congress and then go back to the real world and real jobs.
No, then it would preclude such men as Davy Crocket, etc. The average working person (needs to be a sallary, but not as extravagent as is now)!