Reduce Congressional pay to the minimum wage, and require all representatives to work a 40-hour week and a 50-week year.

What have members of Congress done to justify their high salaries and exorbitant perks? Considering their recent failure to compromise and avert the sequester, it seems like nothing. Send Congress a message that being a representative is about public service. Cut Congressional salaries to the minimum wage and freeze benefits. After all, Congress callously and irresponsibly endangered the job security of thousands of federal employees by not addressing the sequester. In this trying time, it makes no sense that Congress members are not working 40-hour weeks and 50-week years. Ensure that Congress cannot recess without having a budget on the books.