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At this rate it seems like it's time to just start looking for congress people's data that their providers sell online and posting it somewhere like twitter. Because this will only be a problem they take seriously when it detrimentally affects them.
John Oliver actually did something similar on his show:
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-recap-season-9-episode-7-congress-data-1335598/
This is the full episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA
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