All federal elected employees voted into office are to receive the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, including the President and members of Congress. They are not receive any pay while they are not working, while they are not in session or at work. They are not to receive any pay, tenure, pension or retirement benefits from the government after they leave service.
This pay adjustment would take care of a major part of the federal deficit & would ease ill will among the majority of disenfranchised American citizens to see that the elected officials are also living on the federal minimum wage.