“I always wonder if they do this kind of thing, for the votes or if they do it out of conviction and concern for the country.”
The only thing congresspeeple do out of ‘conviction’ is to keep from being convicted.
I think you are both right. To bad, we need people that will go into congress, stay a term or two, maybe three and leave. Unfortunately we get this people who make a carrier out of it, it inevitably becomes all about them.