Senate Packed with Senior Citizen Senators

(they never move on-just continue to give themselves raises on the public dime)

more:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-06-16T135747Z_01_N15413122_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-POLITICS-SENIORS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Senate packed with senior-citizen senators
Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:57am ET
U.S. News

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By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate, dubbed "the world's most exclusive club," is also one of the most elderly, with more than a third of its 100 members at or well past 65 with no plans to leave anytime soon.

While most elderly Americans are retiring, senior senators still wield considerable power, tackling tough issues from war to taxes, some more effectively than others.

"Some of these old people are probably wonderfully wise and some of them, maybe, should have retired a long time ago," said Stephen Hess, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution.


A recent survey of experts declared six of the oldest senators as among the chamber's 10 "best," while three of the oldest were among the five "worst."

He just looks mean, and sounds worse. He sure is no Bob Byrd.