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You know what my concern is about Congress? I checked these numbers: 57% of Senate, 38% of the House, cite “law” as their profession, and when you look at law, well, what happens in the courtroom, it doesn’t go to whose right, it goes to who argues best… and the entire profession is founded on who the best arguers are… the practice is bread in debating teams, for example, where you know the subject, but you don’t know which side you are going to be put on to argue! And so the act of arguing, and not agreeing, seems to be fundamental to that profession and Congress is HALF that profession… I wondered what profession all of these Congressmen were: Law, Law, Law, Law, Businessman, Law, Law. And I said, there are no scientists? Where are the engineers? Where is the rest of life represented here?