In a weird way she has a point. If her rant really is because she wants to do something traditional, by having a family, it’s worth considering solutions. And the answer doesn’t always need to be money.
One solution is to cut the hours, days, weeks, and months Congress is allowed to be in session. Everything isn’t an emergency, they don’t need to
Be there most of the year. We don’t need new laws being passed constantly, pass a damned budget and go home.
Provide reasonable housing in the D.C. area to members of Congress. No options to buy or rent their own.
Permit a percentage of votes to be made remotely. Not everything requires all the face-to-face contact the Congressional dinosaurs pretend it does.
Anything that keeps the Members out of D.C. and in their home states or Districts is worth it.
They actually do not work in DC for the majority of the year. Some stay there for meetings with lobbyists, others have mistresses and professional women that they see on a regular schedule, but most go home to their district and families. The actual time they spend in session is roughly around 80-140 days a year (and only for a few hours typically), depending on the year. Considering the last couple of years they were doing remote "working" due to Covid, she could have easily had a baby without impacting her voting. As far as the rent of apartments etc, i don't have any information about that, but i do remember some hoopla about a Church of some kind that had apartments that they were renting out super cheap to some pols about a decade ago. I remember that it was an issue because the dems were complaining about it violating church and state or some such nonsense. I am pretty sure that lobbyists and corporate backers subsidize or otherwise get involved with their pet politicians living expenses, especially if its a big enough concern that AOC is whining about it. Maybe there needs to be an investigation about the housing arrangements in DC for all politicians? Get to the bottom of who is paying for what.
Limit the number of staffers for every politician to a reasonable number and have quarterly financial disclosures of all financial details of public and private life. Extend to immediate family. No Congressional or Senate disclosures of privileged information can be traded on. Any anomalous portfolio windfalls must be investigated.
Her vote didn't mean shit anyway. Dems had the majority and never really had to worry. There were a few close calls but Pelosi allowed remote voting or proxies so she blew it. Ain't gonna happen next term.
In a weird way she has a point. If her rant really is because she wants to do something traditional, by having a family, it’s worth considering solutions. And the answer doesn’t always need to be money.
One solution is to cut the hours, days, weeks, and months Congress is allowed to be in session. Everything isn’t an emergency, they don’t need to Be there most of the year. We don’t need new laws being passed constantly, pass a damned budget and go home.
Provide reasonable housing in the D.C. area to members of Congress. No options to buy or rent their own.
Permit a percentage of votes to be made remotely. Not everything requires all the face-to-face contact the Congressional dinosaurs pretend it does.
Anything that keeps the Members out of D.C. and in their home states or Districts is worth it.
I had 2 children single mother worked in a bank netting $500 a month in 1988.
She can STFU.
They actually do not work in DC for the majority of the year. Some stay there for meetings with lobbyists, others have mistresses and professional women that they see on a regular schedule, but most go home to their district and families. The actual time they spend in session is roughly around 80-140 days a year (and only for a few hours typically), depending on the year. Considering the last couple of years they were doing remote "working" due to Covid, she could have easily had a baby without impacting her voting. As far as the rent of apartments etc, i don't have any information about that, but i do remember some hoopla about a Church of some kind that had apartments that they were renting out super cheap to some pols about a decade ago. I remember that it was an issue because the dems were complaining about it violating church and state or some such nonsense. I am pretty sure that lobbyists and corporate backers subsidize or otherwise get involved with their pet politicians living expenses, especially if its a big enough concern that AOC is whining about it. Maybe there needs to be an investigation about the housing arrangements in DC for all politicians? Get to the bottom of who is paying for what.
Thanks. As you point out, they are really part time. But they create a grand illusion by running back and forth between their home state and D.C.
So cut the travel and have two 90 day sessions where they are actually in D.C., we need to break the illusion our lives depend on them.
Limit the number of staffers for every politician to a reasonable number and have quarterly financial disclosures of all financial details of public and private life. Extend to immediate family. No Congressional or Senate disclosures of privileged information can be traded on. Any anomalous portfolio windfalls must be investigated.
Her vote didn't mean shit anyway. Dems had the majority and never really had to worry. There were a few close calls but Pelosi allowed remote voting or proxies so she blew it. Ain't gonna happen next term.
I’m not saying I agree with her. My point is we could use her complaint to curb their power.