The weather in Washington at the end of this week has been unseasonably perfect, so allow us to commend the members of Congress who are visiting the U.S.-Mexico border where the highs in South Texas are above 100 degrees.

The Loop will famously call out lawmakers for taxpayer-funded luxury codels, but we’ll gladly give credit too when they travel to less comfortable places to actually do their jobs.

In this case, their job is seeing firsthand the border crisis they have been, and will be for the foreseeable future, arguing over how to solve.

The codel to McAllen. Tex., left Thursday night for a 24-hour stay. The trip, led by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), includes Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), Judy Chu (D-Calif.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Al Green (D-Tex.).

Read the entire piece at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/07/18/loop-recommended-codel-visit-the-border/