Interaction In the Congress

The common theme to these accounts is the increasing absorption of congresspeople into their own social scene and the decreasing familiarity of the same congresspeople with their own districts. If these accounts are accurate, then patterns of social contact within the Congress are of greater importance to the building of political coalitions than contacts to parties outside the Congress. The Congress becomes just another small town where everybody knows everyone else's name, but where outsiders are shunned. The exclusiveness of a regular small town is of detriment only to its own inhabitants. The exclusiveness of the Congress, because of the Congress's power, has the potential to impair us all.

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