I’m not sure I could go along with that idea. You might find that if they worked 10 months out of the year that you’d have the most uniformed, ill prepared congressmen to ever serve.
In it’s inception, the idea was that Congress would be served by ‘the People’. It wasn’t intended to be a full time job year around. It wasn’t intended that the Congress would meddle in matters far and wide. The members weren’t intended to be so removed from the populace that they had no idea what the problems of the common man were. It was thought that if they had to live among the people, they would understand why not to raise taxes or levy oppressive legislation upon the good citizens.
IMO, anything we can do to bring these people down to our level, would be a very good step in the right direction.
At the present time, they consider themselves gods above us, not a representative of us.
While I understand your logic, it seems to me we have people today service who haven’t a clue. BTW: It’s my opinion that you could do better than 90% of the people in Congress on day one.