Everyone has a performance metric against which they are judged on a regular, sometimes annual basis. Voting someone out of office is not a reasonable or efficient mechanism for changing the performance of Congress. We need to set a prioritized national agenda against which Congress could be judged on an quarterly, bi-yearly or annual basis. There is no results-orientation in Washington. Nothing ever gets done, we need to create a mechanism where by Congress has defined goals and their performance against the achievement of those goals is measured regularly, publicly and with consequence.