Having given some thought to our courageous representatives' determination to serve their constituents to the best of their ability (I'm sure you can see it dripping even without the icon), I got this idea for an advertisement that could air for the (what is it, five?) weeks they're out on vacation. Recess. Whatever.

I don't have the resources to pull off the production, but I think it's got just about the message people really need to see as they wait through the intermission. Maybe, just maybe a few reps will return to find a few choice messages back at the office.

Maybe.

In any case, here's the outline:

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Open on the semi-darkened bedroom of Our Congressman, soundly snoring away in bed.

Cut back and forth from the bedroom to scenes of worried citizens (3-5 different settings) as they discuss their individual health crises. Possible scenes:

• An elderly couple whose prescription prices are being raised.
  
• A young couple scrambling to pay the hospital bills for their sick child.
  
• A family discussing how soon their injured father will be able to work again, and what they'll have to sacrifice to cover the bills.
  
• (Hey, add your own!)
  

Over the course of these conversations, each turns to the subject of the new health plan being hammered out in Congress; each decides to call Our Congressman (still cutting to the snoring man in his darkened bedroom); and each returns to the table with the same news:

• "He's on vacation!"
  
• "Vacation?"
  
• "Vacation."
  
• (get the picture?)
  

End in the bedroom, Our Congressman still snoring.
Voiceover: "Isn't it nice to have a Congressman who works for YOU?"

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If I had the means to pull it off myself, I would. If anyone here who does likes the idea, please, feel free to grab it and run with it!

Thank you.