I'm not offering a solution, and I agree that ranking is bad. The biggest problem in all of this in my opinion is that the real criteria for this getting attent

I'm not offering a solution, and I agree that ranking is bad. The biggest problem in all of this in my opinion is that the real criteria for this getting attention from Congress was "can I make political hay out of this." That's the worst possible metric short of active malice (although Congress does that too.)