After their house is shaken by a tremendous rumble one morning, the Simpsons discover that they're living directly beneath the newest flight path to Springfield International Airport, after Mayor Quimby has it redirected away from where he is entertaining his mistress.
Unable to sell the house because of the noise, Homer and Marge then go to their congressman Horace Wilcox, who has been Springfield's representative since 1933.
Bart asks Krusty the Clown to run for Congress and he agrees, thinking he can also eliminate everything with which the Government is harassing him.
To Krusty's chagrin, no-one pays attention to a freshman Congressman, and he is appointed to useless committees, or set to work cleaning the graffiti off the walls.
With his help, Bart blackmails a key congressman with a videotape that shows him abusing the free mail policy.
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The scene where Mayor Quimby, upon hearing his mistress speak for the first time, remarks that he "regrets building her that opera house" is a reference to Citizen Kane, where the title character opens an opera house for his mistress, despite her lack of vocal talent.