Yeah but being a legislator is not meant to be a full-time job. In the view of the founding fathers.
There is no way to assert the proper role of Congress (let alone the proper role of the Republican party) against the permanent Democratic bureaucracy without working a serious, full-time schedule. Part-timers can't accomplish that much under the circumstances. This is one of those situations in which the Framers' wisdom, which was almost always sound in its day, truly doesn't apply anymore. Romantic notions of citizen government are self-defeating at this point.
yes, they needed to be home to run their slave plantations......
times change.
I wish our guys had realized how serious their jobs really were. But they'll have more time for golf outings now that dems are in charge and passing BS crazy legislation 5 days a week.