[RAY]

US Senators should be paid directly by their state and should not be on a federal payroll. They now act like federal employees! Their expenses should be paid by their state as well as their salaries should be set by their respective state. The should be direct employees of their state. The 17th Amendment got it wrong!!

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, the matter of who paid the senator’s salary was a topic at the Federal Convention.

The sense of the convention was that state delegates under the Articles of Confederation were too close to their states.

I think the Framers did a great job. Senators were no longer delegates subject to recall. They were to represent their corporate states for fixed terms just as reps represented their constituents.