I called every U.S. Representative in the country. Here were the responses I got.

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In mid-July 2022, Mr. Beat called every voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives, mostly pretending like he was a constituent of their district. He collected their responses and here are the results. For a more detailed look at responses, here is the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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I’ve always thought the House of Representatives was the part of the federal government MOST directly connected with ordinary people. After this experience, that’s not true at all.

I assumed I would get way more responses.

I do get why Representatives can’t make much time for constituents. The average Representative is supposed to represent 759,000 people. But as I said in my follow-up video to calling every Senator, I KNOW these Representatives make time for their campaign donors, and I KNOW they make time for lobbyists who bribe them. So I ask again…why can’t they make time for us?

This whole experience of calling every member of Congress has caused me to question everything about how our federal government is supposed to function. I used to naively believe that we truly lived in a constitutional republic, just like I used to teach my students in Government class. But these Representatives don’t seem to represent us much at all.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:44 The bill I focused on
12:32 Responses
15:14 My takeaways
17:19 My own Congressman's response
19:06 My final takeaway