True, the longer someone's in Congress the more seniority they have, but they don't send home more federal money. The real numbers show no correlation between the seniority of a state's congressional delegation and federal spending in the state. What seniority does produce is an entrenched Congress full of special interest influence, and wasteful spending. Few Americans benefit. No state or district ever gained prosperity through special favors from Washington.
Seniority is a costly mirage that only shows up in the taxes taken out of all of our paychecks.
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