Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
He’s just here to pimp his blog.
It did not take the RINO collaborators long to kill the Big Mo the Tea Party gave them in November. Starting with the so called Tax Deal by McConnell and now Boner and his big cave in on the shutdown. Phooey!
Someone please explain how the GOP was supposed to get even bigger cuts through, given they need 60 senators and a liberal president to agree with them to make them law.
Also, someone please explain how this shutdown was supposed to advance the cause of fiscal conservatism?
You pick you battles. If you don’t have the numbers, you don’t charge the hill. You nip at the flanks and you snipe them one by one, living to fight another day when you do have superior firepower.
I guess none of you were ever in the military.
So, when are you running for Congress?
Great post and an idea way passed its time and desperately needed! If the president can have term limits, why can’t these Congress critters?
I’m in total 100% agreement with all of your points. I think we the people haven’t made ourselves clear enough. But, just wait until 2012, you ain’t seen nothin yet.
Who says a shutdown would have occured? Zero and dims need the politics and good face more than we do. The Rinos strike bleeding heart for dims stupid again... mama’s boyz losers who will get respect from no legit mother and no illegit prostitute.