[Doug Loss]

How about a law forbidding Representatives and Senators from entering the District of Columbia at all during their terms of office except for specifically designated ceremonial occasions? They could conduct all their legislative business via video conferencing from their home states and districts. In fact, let's forbid them from leaving their states for periods of more than three weeks during their terms of office. Make "federal legislator" something like a home-confinement criminal sentence.

[Theodore R.]

This is ABSURD. The Constitution of the United States (which Stenholm may not have glanced at in years) specifies two years terms for the U.S. House. This will require a constitutional amendment. LBJ proposed this in 1965 or 1967, and a constitutional amendment went nowhere. Abilene people think they can't exist without Congressman Stenholm!

[concerned about politics]

I think two-year terms, the costs associated with them — the constant campaigning and the constant need for money-raising —

He'll do anything for the workers but become one.
He stands for what he thinks people will fall for.
I'm sure he's studied both sides of the issue - so he can go around them!

[jmaroneps37]

Don't rats suck?