Hey, Congress: Keep Your Day Jobs : NPR

Hey, Congress: Keep Your Day Jobs : NPR: "Next week, hordes of conservative Republican lawmakers will descend on Washington to take their seats in the freshman class of the 112th Congress. But some prominent conservatives suggest the best thing lawmakers can do to fix Capitol Hill is to stay the heck away from it.

'We used to pay farmers not to grow crops. Let's pay congressmen to stay out of Washington, D.C.,' Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal recently told Human Events. In a new book, Jindal makes a serious case for a return to a part-time Congress, among other things. He argues that once elected, lawmakers who once promised to change Washington 'become part of the problem' and turn into a 'permanent governing political class.'

His solution? 'Make them part-time, give them term limits. Don't let them become lobbyists. When they have to live under the same rules and laws they pass for the rest of us, maybe you'd see some more common sense coming out of Washington, D.C.'

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