Senators Propose Closing State Offices to Save on Budget

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We need to abandon pretense and start auctioning off senate and house seats to the highest bidder to cut the deficit. At least we would have an accurate idea of who and what we're dealing with and not all this phoney double talk.

StaticKlingon of TX 1:40PM May 31, 2011

The reporter almost got it right - the allotment is based on population, but it isn't a fixed # of offices, it is a square footage allotment. Regardless, there is fat there to be cut!

S Jack Mulligan of MN 1:39PM May 31, 2011

Senator Casey (D-PA) has seven (7) offices in Pennsylvania and one (1) in DC. I know from several attempts to speak to a person rather than an answering machine that only one of those offices has a person who actually answers the phone. The office in Washington DC is evidently much busier than any other senator's office because NO ONE EVER answers the phone there.

snapboy of PA 1:32PM May 31, 2011

Interesting that Gainer suggests closing "down state" offices, considering he is from Illinois where everything south of I-80 is considered "downstate." I am all for saving money, BUT, closing in-state offices would simply further divide members from their constituents. Is that what we really want? A Washington, D.C. even LESS a part of the people supposedly represented there?

Garl of IL 1:32PM May 31, 2011

While we are at it, their benefits should end as soon as they leave office. No retirement, no special medical coverage, nothing. Just send them home. Let them experience what they have done to this country.

Freedom Rings of CA 1:30PM May 31, 2011

The Democrat Nelson is scratching his head and moaning about trying to find 5% of the Senate's allowance to cut? Good grief. With brilliant minds like that this nation is finished. I could pick the first 100 names out of the phone book and I guarantee they would find 95% of these fools' allowance to cut, not 5%.

jj1970jj of OH 1:26PM May 31, 2011

I think that would be great. We Americans shouldn't be the only ones giving up things and living on beans and potatoes trying to buy gas to drive back and forth to work....I don't think that I am the only one the feels this way. Just saying...

Rebecca Buchholz of TX 1:13PM May 31, 2011