You're now in charge of interviewing Congressional reps.

[Deleted]

(Good God, if that were only true...)

What skill, talent, education/training, or other requirement would you consider mandatory?

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Be able to conduct a text message conversation with an 18-year old.


Be able to buy a week's worth of groceries for a family of four on a budget of $100.

[cattledogkisses]

I think the problem with our Congress is that we have a massive over-representation of only one walk of life (white, male, upper class, Christian). I'm not sure I would go for specific traits as much as just for diversity in general: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, male, female, working class, upper class, middle class, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, Christian, etc. etc. etc. It would be nice to have a Congress that approximately represented the actual demographics of our country.

[charminglife]

This would never happen, but it would be great if all reps experienced working in a service industry. Hell, I think our whole country would benefit from that.

[omgzombies]

They would need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas off the top of their head. Anyone serving on any committee must pass a rigorous exam on that subject. Ie if you are on the Science, Space and Technology committee, you better know shit about science, space and technology.

[Deleted]

I'd also demand them to be under the age of 50. (Because I'm discriminatory like that.)

[jln]

I would like to see congress set up to more accurately represent the races and political leanings in our country. And under 50. And with term limits. And a smaller paycheck.

[katfco]

Be able to intelligently discuss the following issues from multiple points of view:
American history
white privilege
gender disparities in society and the economy
basic economic theory

asking too much? Okay, how about they at least are able to get a decent score on the SATs.

[cookiemdough]

How do you decide between what is most important to your state versus what is most important to the country?

[cookiemdough]

For every concept / law that you i object to what is your proposal that you think is better and why?

[taratru]

Talk me through the decision making process when confronted with cake and pie. How do you choose when you can't have both?