Ex-GOP Rep. Ken Buck says he wanted to leave Congress ‘about three weeks’ after he arrived: ‘It took me a long time to figure out how to get out of this place’ [Video]

Former Rep. Ken Buck has not been shy about calling out what he says is the highly dysfunctional nature of Congress.

The Colorado Republican, who was first elected to the House in 2014 and resigned in March after declining to seek reelection this fall, has also been critical of the GOP in how they’ve handled their majority status in the lower chamber, recently telling The Washington Post that he got “more good work done” when Democrats were in charge.

And during an interview with the The New York Times, Buck — alongside 11 members of Congress retiring at the end of their terms — rattled off a list of why they were leaving the storied American institution.

But not even a month into his tenure in Congress, Buck revealed that he was already eyeing the exits.

“I knew it was time to leave about three weeks after I got to Congress. It just took me a long time to try to figure out …