Rep. Sean Casten

I was I did a thing about this with some various other podcasters recently.

And when everybody said, what's the most important thing we can do to drive this forward is just make noise about it.

You know, the more that voters care, the more that those of us in elected office have to do something about it.

And I would also say that whether it's 500,000 or 400,000 –

The barriers are more construction.

Like we probably need another office.

We could do that.

There's space on the mall.

Yeah, I mean, I'm going to sound like an old fuddy-duddy who – I know.

You're going to want them all together.

Well, I was – the last time I was a CEO was before COVID.

I'm still a firm believer in the water cooler.

What I'm curious, Chuck, as you think through that, I've only served obviously in the post-Gingrich era.

There are members who stay in D.C.

through the weekends and there are those of us who go home.

Broadly speaking, you don't stay in D.C.

over the weekend if you're not in a really safe seat.

And so I would worry a little bit about that because since so much of this job is relationships,

wouldn't that concentrate power in sort of the senior safest seat members who could stick around?

Because you gotta go back to your district if you don't know whether you're gonna win your next election.