Didn't our illustrious congressmen and senators enjoy a nice, hefty (self-voted) pay raise?
Seriously, there needs to be a grass roots effort to shift pay increase authorizations from the congress and senate back to their constituents on a "compliance" standard based on whether or not they did the work the voters hired them to do in the first place.
Sure, an irrelevantly small one. The pay raises for all of Congress combined could buy maybe a dozen cruise missiles, or extend welfare benefits for the whole country for about two hours. Heck, I'd gladly pay Congresscreatures a million dollars a year if that's what it took to get them to uphold their oaths to bear true faith to the Constitution.