There are 100 senators and 435 representatives in Congress who are supposed to represent more than 300 million Americans.
We elect them “close to home” — two senators from each state and one representative from each congressional district.
But few Americans hold Congress in high regard these days.
• Only 14 percent of us approve of the job performance of Congress, while 84 percent disapprove, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll. Those unpleasant numbers are records, by the way.
• The low of 14 percent, with 82 percent disapproval, was also shown in a CBS/New York Times poll.