If all federal employees are being denied raises and some departments are being furloughed I believe that we need to reduce the number of politicians for each state. If we have to do more with less then they should have to abide by the same rules. We all know that they have enough money where this reduction if politicians would not hurt them financially, where as middle class america is suffering.
They should also limit the number of staff each is allowed to have. They have staff that do pretty much nothing all day yet receive a really nice pay check.
Bottom line is we need to get rid of the number of senators and congressmen we can call it a RIF.