https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/30/opinion/congress-resignations.html

Twelve departing lawmakers tellus what Congress is really like. Even the insiders are fed up with Washington. To understand why, we put the same eight questions to House and Senate members in both parties who are on the way out, looking for patterns and prescriptions to get a handle on the place. Corruption, money, perks, frustrations, solutions — hear what they said about it all.