Pay all highly ranked elected officials the DC standard of minimum wage ($8.25 an hour * 40 hours per week = $17,160 per year before taxes), not even the lowest minimum wage in the US, for ONE MONTH, and ban them from taking any money from lobbyists or sponsors, and see how fast things get done in DC.
Let's see how long the folks who we elected to represent us can live on the amount they've elected that most average people should live on.
Make these filthy rich old white guys experience, for 1 month what it is to make even the low end of five figures a year, and see how fast they change their tune on what the average american actually wants from government.
We are a government for the people, and by the people. Not a population built to keep government officials in mansions..