1. Little to no transportation per Representative/Senator. 2. Hold town hall meetings every Monday throughout own state. 3. The building could be given to Smithsonian &/or used once a year for the State of the Union Message 4. Use of electronic communication for voting, committee meetings, etc. open to Sunshine Laws 5. No need for Senator & Representative duplication of housing, offices, staff 6. More environmental 'friendly' reducing: paper waste, reduction electricity, 7. One-Third of Federal Government less vulerable to terrorist attack 8. Current Senator/Representative Office space could be donated for low income housing, Malls, etc.
Political Benefits: 1. Reduce lobbyists control over government 2. Representatives/Senators more responsive to constituents 3. Increase accountability & Reduce moral temptation for Representatives/Senators Consideration of Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) "virtual Congress" creation: SAVE BUDGET: SEND SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES ALL HOME!!!!
Reduce cost D.C.Federal Government while reducing Carbon footprint
This is forehead slappingly the next evolution in participatory democracy. One day, knock wood, we’ll be smart enough to dispense with representational government all together, Plato notwithstanding. We have the technology, we have the data, we don’t have a sane, rational citizenry. But the technology will eventually dictate that we let the data speak for itself and show us how to get from point A to point B.
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If they must party, let it be with their constituents, their true EMPLOYERS!! I still say they need to be in glass offices, where we can watch everything they do. A million e-mails are easy to ignore, not so a crowd of angry voters staring in your window.
It would also allow them to hide out while making decisions that screw us...
Sounds great.
Brilliant idea! They could still hold ceremonial events in DC, and of course classified hearings might require physical presence, but almost all legislation could be done from home states and home districts!
There’s a visionary person. Lobbyists would also have more trouble flying hither and thither to start up backroom deals. DC parties have even corrupted wives of SCOTUS justices and in turn the justices themselves. [Note ‘Men in Black’, Roe-V-Wade chapter.]
Congress would have to study baaic geography. I doubt many could even locate their state on a map.