Need To Know | Fixing America: Walter Kirn on making Congress members live in their districts | PBS
Duration: 02:37
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Need to Know #214
Broadcast Date: Dec. 9, 2011
Walter Kirn, who wrote the novel "Up in the Air," says the way to fix Congress is to make all the representatives live fulltime in their districts. That way, he says, they would be forced to deal with their constituents after each controversial vote.
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