11 members of the current Congress have been in Congress longer than we've been alive.

With 77% of Americans disapproving of Congress's work, today we're asking how long is too long to serve in Washington.

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

You're listening to Pantsy Politics.

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Thanks for joining us for another episode. I should say after that intro, we're not young. I mean, I'm 35, just PS.

Yeah, all of those 11 members have been in Congress more than 36 years.

Wow. Okay.

Well, we hope you've been following along all the activity on our blog.

We're trying to really showcase our amazing community of listeners.

So we're posting blog posts, emails that are written to us because it felt selfish that Beth and I were just soaking up all your brilliant thoughts and not sharing them with the world and send anything our way that you'd like us to consider publishing.

It doesn't have to just be like a dear Sarah and Beth. If you've written something on your personal blog that you want to repost with us, we'd love to take a look at it.

And before we get started on the pearls, speaking of the Pantsy Politics community, we somehow misplain Rachel's message of what Pantsy Politics means to her.

So we're going to share that right now and then we'll dive into the pearls.

Hey, guys, it's Rachel. Take four, I think I'm not very good at technology, but I think this is the one.

And so I just want to start off by saying I hope Sarah and Beth have gotten a lot of sleep and are hydrated from other convention hopping because y'all have been putting in the work for us.

And so thank you for that. And then also I want to discuss just exactly what Pantsy Politics means to me.

So some background on me, I'm very young female. I live in a highly Republican area.

And I really didn't have anyone to discuss politics with. And it was kind of difficult because they weren't really having discussion.

It was just, you know, insults, I guess. And so I have been listening since the third episode, you know, the one about Yale.

And ever since this community has been like my support system.

And it is full of wonderful, intelligent, nuanced people.

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