Rep. Sean Casten

So if you just always do the right thing, history will view you as being very prescient.

And I voted one way and he sticks his card in the machine, votes the other way and says, yeah, I can't do that.

It isn't, but that's another story.

We'll look there.

Congress is better than you think.

There are a lot.

One of the things I like to point out to people is if you think through all the members of Congress, come up with a list of the members who you think are bona fide knuckleheads and just come up with your list and count them.

Divide that by 535.

That's the congressional knucklehead ratio.

Then then go to your own office.

Your own office probably has the same knucklehead ratio.

We are a representative body.

And, you know, and it's and, you know, is it is it 10, 15 percent?

Maybe.

But it's it's not 90 percent.

It's certain members.

And you raise the good question that maybe we should start a caucus.

Yeah, Derek Kilmer had his modernization caucus that was very bipartisan last term.

They tended to focus on some smaller bore issues.

And one of the things that sort of makes it partisan that you wish it wasn't, and I've had conversations with my Republican colleagues, is that the Republican Party today –