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Why don’t you drive? I can make it to DC in one day (900 miles) from Wisconsin easily and arrive refreshed. A couple of hours of travel time is spent going through Chicago. So, Indiana is that much closer because drivers don’t have to traverse Chi. Or, there is always the train. It’s not like Lugar is from some out of the way village. He was Mayor of Indianapolis, FGS.

In any case, nobody expects Congresscritters to come home every weekend. And they get 4 day weekends every week, plus lots of additional recesses. Actually it is almost a 5 day weekend because they adjourn at noon on Thurs. and don’t reconvene until the afternoon on Tues.

Scoop Jackson maintained his home in Everett, Washington throughout his long tenure in DC. Harry Truman (who was not wealthy, by any standard) maintained his Missouri home. What is the matter with today’s pols?

There's nothing wrong with them. It's the price of housing that's the difficulty. Back during WWII, you had Congresscritters in DC keeping a full house operating back home somewhere but they crashed in a transient hotel near the Capitol Building.

That area now has some pricey digs ~ nothing cheap up there. The house back home takes up a series percentage of their income ~ several times what it would have cost in 1944.

Today even with "allowances for housing" your typical Congressman with a family has to decide whether or not to keep his family here or back wherever.

Remember the difficulties Sarah Palin had with commuting from Alaska's political capital (Juneau) to it's operating capital (Anchorage). It's about 600 miles or thereabouts. Plus they have an outrageous climate.

So, is she allowed to have kids?

The complaint there was she claimed too much in perdiem for her kids so I guess she really wasn't entitled to have kids.

If all you want are single folks without families going to Congress that's what you'll get ~ still, Barney Frank, who lived on the Hill, still had to rent his basement out to a guy who worked as a gay prostitute!

Frankly, with America's decided preference AGAINST Republicans being homosexuals, what you are asking for is that no one but Democrats run for office.

One more time on how many days these guys get off, that's just how many days Congress isn't itself in session ~ that doesn't mean they "get off".