"My glimpse of Congress was disturbing.
I had not been in the lower House for a long time, and only once of recent years in the Senate, and the action of both Houses was so desultory, so lacking in dignity, that it would have been ludicrous, had it not been for a consideration of the matters of world-wide importance awaiting their decision.
They were discussing "pork barrels," busied with getting something for their selfish little constituencies. America in the mass, humanity in the mass, is impressive, but our senators, when seen individually, like Europe's kings, lose their bulk."
--Hamlin Garland, 1915
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