28th Amendment

[Seadog]

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.

[skeemer]

I'd vote for it.

[flyboy56]

Or simply put, no one is above the law.

[Baltimatt]

Does that mean each of us gets a congressional salary?

[Fang]

I'd vote for it with the condition that Congress' salaries are tied to the debt. No raise if they don't balance the budget.

[Wizard777]

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.

But then they wouldn't be Aristocrats anymore and they would become the Public Servants the Founders intended them to be. Then no one would want to do the job anymore. People would stop spending millions and billions to get elected to jobs that only pay hundreds of thousands and millions. We would no longer have a government that only knows how to spend far more than they take in because that's how they got the job. Hey, wait a minute!

[Wizard777]

I'd vote for it with the condition that Congress' salaries are tied to the debt. No raise if they don't balance the budget.

They should have to ask their bosses for a raise by referendum vote. If they receive the raise the minimum wage will automatically be raised by the same percentage.

[SalisburySage]

Love it.

[Woodbuchr]

I would hope that would also include them losing that wonderful healthcare and retirement plan. Make them have to take Social Security and Medicare like the common folks instead of the Golden Parachute health care they get in their retirement package.

[Gopher]

I’d favor an amendment that wrote the Senate and the House of Representatives out of the Constitution altogether. We don’t need them. The governors of the fifty states could meet for two months each year in Washington, D.C., decide issues of national concern and then go home. Everything else would go back to the states for them to fund and administer, i.e. health, education, welfare, etc.

I’d also favor an amendment that makes it a capital crime for a politician to lie.

[Candy Pickletoes]

I’d favor an amendment that wrote the Senate and the House of Representatives out of the Constitution altogether. We don’t need them. The governors of the fifty states could meet for two months each year in Washington, D.C., decide issues of national concern and then go home. Everything else would go back to the states for them to fund and administer, i.e. health, education, welfare, etc.

I’d also favor an amendment that makes it a capital crime for a politician to lie.

There is not enough death row space in all of the U.S. to accomodate all of the politicians who lie.

[Jeebus]

What laws are in place today that exempt Senators and Representatives?

Other than what is specifically called out in the Constitution (privileged from arrest while travelling to Congress for a vote-Article I Section VI) I think many here are under a false impression about their alleged "exemptions."