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Consider the benefits: 1) Congress does not listen to us, and I suspect at least part of that is due to being up in DC up in their ivory towers looking down their noses at us. So if members of congress were at home in their districts and US senators at 'home' in their state capitals, they would be a lot closer to their constituents and it should give we the people much greater power. It also removes all of them from the daily cesspool that is the DC culture. 2) It's a security issue. We all remember 9/11. What...

Days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the New America Foundation presented a plan to Congress to relocate its members to their home districts and conduct business via teleconference. The impetus for the plan at that time was national security. To this day, there remains speculation regarding the intended target of United Airlines Flight 93. Had it crashed into Capitol Hill, the legislative branch may have been critically affected. Decentralizing Congress, it was argued, would ensure the continuity of government against a localized attack.Obviously, the plan went no where. Congress continues to conduct business in a localized setting....