Glowing bacteria can be used to encode spy messages (Yahoo! News)

Perdue (Ted Richardson/The News & Observer via AP)

Would members of Congress be more productive and more bipartisan if they weren't concerned about re-election every two years?

It's a thought that's crossed the minds of many voters as well as House members, many of whom have complained over the years about non-stop campaigning.

But Bev Perdue, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, said it out loud Tuesday.

"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover," Perdue said. She later added, "You want people who don't worry about the next election."

Was she kidding? "It's unclear whether Perdue, a Democrat, is serious -- but her tone was level and she asked others to support her on the idea," the first report on Perdue's remarks, in Raleigh's News & Observer, concluded.

You can listen to Perdue's complete comments at The News & Observer.

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