That said, the sheer number of COVID cases on Capitol Hill is eye-popping.

All told, at this writing, 135 members of the 117th Congress have tested positive.

Seventy-eight members have tested positive this calendar year.

The coronavirus caseload on Capitol Hill often matches — or even predicts — a wave in the general population. After all, we have “representative government” in the United States. And it seems that Congress has mostly aligned perfectly with the rest of the country as the pandemic endures peaks and valleys.