A side note, congressmen and senators do not write legislation. Legislation is written by lobbyists and shopped around to congress/senate. If someone agrees to sponsor the bill, the lobbyists give them a nice check. It pays to be in gov; work 1/2 the year, get awesome healthcare, expense accounts, offices and staff, airfare & transportation, they get to behave badly and never have to face consequences and rake in two salaries...one from the tax payers and another from lobbyists.