It will be a full time job getting things undone.
Yes, yes, YES! As Mark Levin says, EVERY DAY CONGRESS MEETS, YOU LOSE A BIT OF YOUR LIBERTIES!!
In fact, I would gladly pay them DOUBLE if they worked HALF as much! I truly like the model of the Texas legislature.
Congress once was a part-time job. The founders never expected the legislative branch to be a full-time effort.
I would add Senators, Governors, and President to that listing.
And let’s pay them minimum wage while we’re at it.
Part time would just give them more out-of-office time to do under-the-table and good-ole-boy deals.
The solution is not to make them part time.
The solution is to make them term limited and add restrictions such as:
they cannot seek another elective office unless they resign any currently held elective office.
Put Congress on their states’ payroll instead of the federal payroll.
Let them remember for whom they work.
Why not tie congressional pay and their retirement benefits to whether we run a budget surplus or deficit - no surplus, no pay and no benefits. This would have to come with the proviso, however, that defense and other constitutionally-mandated spending must still equal or exceed a certain percentage of GDP (to avoid them slashing such spending to avoid a deficit).
Here is ewhat made Congress full time:
Air conditioning.
Make air conditioning policy in the federal code such that buildings will not be cooled any lower than 83F when the temperature is higher. Make the very act of being in DC in an office building from May until September a miserable existence.
Better yet, reduce the heat level in federal buildings to 50F in the winter.
Tell the public that the government is saving money and energy and reducing CO2 emissions. Wrap the move in the cloth of envirionmental preening.
Moreover, they are more likely to gain approval -- and don't require a Constitutional Amendment.
They already are part-time, that’s why they don’t have time to vote for Obama’s bills before rubberstamping them. Writing legislation is a job best left to unelected, unelectable, unqualified left-wing stooges. Thanks La Enchiladita.
Congress could stay in their home office and conduct business electronically—web conferencing. This would save money on travel, security, housing, etc.
Congress, in fact Washington and elected persons (I will not call them officials) pretty much stayed away from DC most of they year until the advent of air conditioning.
Will Rogers I believe said that the country was not safe when Congress is in session... how true.
Shut off the AC and send the bastards packing I say.
Two month-long sessions per year. One in January and one in July. No bill gets passed in the session it is introduced. No law is passed for the general public that does not apply equally to all, including Congress.
They hardly work as it is but still are able to do immense damage. We already have ten thousand more laws than we need or could ever hope to enforce. Another treaty? With whom and why?
Just empanel the Congress once a year to carve out a budget and that’s it. Then send the pompous dolts home and make them earn their living honestly.
In the meantime, bring in some efficiency experts and pay them $10,000 per $1 billion reduced from overall spending. And start paying lawyers inversely on billable hours—the longer it takes, the less you get. Take too long, and you owe us.
What I’ve been saying for years! That will bring in those who LOVE this country and not the lechers of power and perks!
GO Gov. JINDAL!!
Agreed. And the funny things is that until about 1960 they spent a lot less time in DC than now. Even today technically the session is supposed to end on June 30. Of course it never does,
Cosidering what they get done, how they get it done, and the time they’re away from their job [running for office,kissing a*s,etc.], they already are.
Just pay them like it’s a part time job. They’ll get out of Dodge as often as possible.