2016 Members Report

It was the summer of 1985 and all the national television networks were there. You could hear the cameras clicking and the whir of their motors grinding away. Before a committee of the House of Representatives a hesitant man leans forward and begins to speak. Amazingly, nearly every seat facing him was empty. This is the way Congress works. Representatives appear before the lenses in this room to make speeches to constituents back home. They are gone before the testimony they’ve requested from the man begins.

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