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Who are your favorite Congressmen?

I don't have any, actually. I think they've turned into the worst of the public employee unions. It takes a special kind of hubris to grant themselves retirement benefits - you don't retire from Congress, you fail to get elected there. You can choose not to run, but that's not retirement. Congress is NOT a career choice.

Worst is spousal benefits for retirement - hello? Can you be just a tiny bit less obvious in your embezzlement?

I'd love to see Congress actually reformed.

1) Members of Congress must maintain their primary residence in their home district or state. They are restricted from maintaining any type of ‘home’ outside of that primary residence.

2) Members of Congress are awarded a fixed salary, no matter what their position, no matter their numbers of years, no matter how many committees they run. That is the singular compensation - no retirement, no health benefits, etc. They can choose to purchase these out of their compensation.

3) All public airlines are required to provide (as available) seats on their aircraft for members of congress to travel from Washington DC to their home district, free of charge.

4) Conversion of one of the executive office buildings next to Congress into a hostel for members of congress to use while in session. They must return home each weekend and when the session ends.

5) Members of congress are forbidden from using any government vehicles, aircraft, etc for personal use. They may not skirt this rule by paying ‘fair market rates’ to use these publicly owned aircraft and cars. The exception is a motorpool at Congress where members of congress can check out vehicles for official business in and around the Washington DC area.

6) Lastly, all members of congress must use the same entry as the public does, going through the same checkpoints, searches and queues. Members of congress can think of this as a campaign opportunity to talk to the people they represent, or use the time to contemplate how stupid this whole security system is.

” Who are your favorite Congressmen? “

John Adams...

(He may be the last Congresscritter ever documented to have actually read the Constitution..)

(Of course, he wrote it - and I’m betting he *didn’t* say “We have to pass it to find out what’s in it..”)

Who are your favorite Congressmen?

You might just as well have asked who are your favorite Nazis, or favorite Al-Qaeda members.