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1) Congress was not supposed to be a career, Liz. Go do your 2 to 12 years and go back home.

2) I will happily support funding Barracks for Congress. If they want to complain about the cost of two home, we can give the military-style Barracks they can live in while in Washington. I am talking same rules, same shoddy construction, same furniture, same FSBI rules. Oh, and same private for-profit companies doing "maintenance." I will even support hiring a group of civilians to pull CQ duty for them so we don't have to worry about them missing a vote because they have 24 hour duty. But the GI parties are going to be on them.

Of course, they will have the option to go live on the economy on their own dime - but that will be *their* decision and they can't bitch about it. We provided "suitable" housing.

3a) No Congressional staff budgets do not need to be expanded. Congress needs to be simplified. Part of the reason you need these huge staffs is because you write 4000 page bills, and SOMEONE has to read all of that for red flags. Te solution is not to hire more staffers, it is to write simpler bills - and to stop trying to regulate everything.

3b) Also, stop wasting time on fruitless actions. How many bills are brought forth that *everyone* - even the sponsors - knows has no chance of passing. How much time and manpower went into that? Not just your staff, but everyone else else's staff which had to review it? Both parties spend more time and effort on virtue signaling than on trying to ACTUALLY legislate.

3c) Stop trying to micromanage America. A return to a limited federal government would RADICALLY reduce the need for legislative staffers. Give the power back to the people. Or at least to the states.

3a + 3b + 3c = Stop demanding more resources. I am not asking you to do more with less. I want you to do less with less.

More than happy to give the raise but with conditions .
1. No Perks.
2. No owning stocks or financial assets during the period of 1 year prior to seeking office and 5 years after leaving office.
3. If appropriation Bills are not passed prior to the end of the Fiscal year then pay for Members of Congress will see deductions of 1 weeks pay for every day the Budget Bills are not passed .
4. Congress will work Monday through Friday. They can have Saturday and Sunday off except in National Emergencies.
5. Ethics rules will strengthened and rigidly enforced.
6. Members of Congress can only accept political contributions from the people they represent ONLY. No PAC Money. No Dark Money.


Now I know some would think where are the term limits. We already have term limits and they are called elections. Don't like the person in office then vote, work a campaign or run for office yourself.

Hell they are already making themselves millionaire once they get elected. Plus they already make way more than the average family of 4 with 2 working parents.