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 dogma wrote:
No it isn't. Senators and Representatives are not elected to represent the nation, that isn't how our system works.

Yes, it is. Only an idiot believes Mississippi will do just fine, and not be affected in the slightest, if the federal government should, say, default on the debt. The long-term fiscal health of the Unites States is important, - critical, even - to every state in the union.

Of course it is, but the job of every member of the house is balancing priorites, some of which naturally conflict.

We could balance the budget easily if we abolished all social welfare and the military. Obviously we want to keep some of both, though, so our representatives have to negotiate and argue to figure out what stays and what goes.