A House Democrat is suggesting the House ethics office conduct reviews of fitness to serve for aging lawmakers.

“What I’ve heard from my neighbors, my community, is this idea that this place is being run by a bunch of staffers,” Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., told Axios, pitching her House ethics oversight on lawmakers who have declined with age and have handed many official duties off to staffers. “And we’re seeing a very real decline in confidence in Congress.

“It’s not a comfortable thing to think about time being irreversible and how our lives change, but,” she added, “real respect for our communities and the body here is [being] willing to have these honest, candid, and difficult conversations.”

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