They are the exception to the rule, and the astounding number people that have spent twenty, thirty, forty years or more in Congress prove that what I said is true.
Also, see the record here on FR - so many people defending long-term incumbents that are from their district who have sold everyone else down the river.
All that being as it may, the point is that Congress should have been brought to heel on this de-facto blackmail of the states and others receiving funding more than half a century ago - and nobody did.
They are the exception to the rule
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That was my point. From time to time they do a little house cleaning. It doesn’t happen enough unfortunately.