Member

When I go around speaking on this subject, which I have to do from time to time, I can mount a case for an appointed House, but I also have to acknowledge that one is pushing the tolerance of the public in so much of what they read about the House: the absence of a retirement age, the absence of a requirement to attend regularly, the ability for someone to be in the House for 50 years or more, and the idea that there is no limit to the size of the House. These are all very difficult things to sell to people for a legislative Chamber.