10 Things I Would Change About Congress

Most of the blogger lists are personal. But what could possibly be more personal than the miserable effects this Congress is having on all of our lives?

Here's my list, and chime in with your own wish list in Comments.

The 10 things I'd change about Congress:
1) No more inserting disparate items into other bills (like the "real" ID act snuck into a military spending bill).
2) Stop ALL automatic pay increases every year.
3) Tie their salaries AND their health care to national averages; they make no more than the average income earners AND their health care would be as disastrous and "out of their own pocket" as ours.
4) No party is majority rule for more than two consecutive years.
5) Implement rules that prevents them from taking ANYTHING from lobbyists and, once they leave Congress, they may not work in any capacity for a lobbying group for between 5-10 years from their final day on Capitol Hill. This would cut the number of scumbuckets who adopt disastrous bills and then take lucrative lobbying jobs immediately thereafter.
6) The people - rather than Congress - will develop and enforce the ethics rules Congress must live by.
7) Members of Congress have a choice: they can work on Capitol Hill or their spouse or family member may be a lobbyist; NOT both.
8) They have to work real hours; no more long vacations in which they're absent from the Hill yet nowhere near their home constituency.
9) No more Congress critters also being fundraisers for other Congress critters or for the president.
10) No corporate underwriting of Senators or House Reps. Period.
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