It's fundamentally a different thing. While the general process of logically working something out should be the same everywhere, the particulars are different.

It's fundamentally a different thing. While the general process of logically working something out should be the same everywhere, the particulars are different. The House is full of politicians and what they say is televised and comprises part of their campaign. Ego always comes first to politicians, not problem-solving, because politicians are elected based on image and appearances, not hard results. Also, when you represent such a wide swath of people with so many conflicting interests, all of your decisions become watered down with so-called "compromise". Someone wrote on another thread about SOPA that a politician is always campaigning. I believe this to be true. Politics is almost exclusively posturing, and it's reasonable for one to tire of the senseless bloviating, especially when it pertains to technical topics on which the speaker is obviously very poorly informed. Not saying things should be this way, but that's the way they are.