I think if you started off and limited Senators to two sixty-day sessions per year...you’d make it hard to continue business as usual. The other thing you could do....pass a law that each Senator must live for sixty days per year in their home state, and the max they can be outside of the US is seven days per year.
Nothing will be restorative without abolishing ALL the buraus and departments and agencies and all their works Also have to restrict Federal land ownership to DC, and millitary bases should be on leases, perpetual leases, but leases nevertheless.
Excellent ideas. Long as your building a wish list, may I put in a strong wish for term limits for every elected official and also judges.
As to the two sixty-day sessions idea, how ‘bout Aug, Sep and Feb, Mar.
12: And only paid at 50% of the median income of the lowest-income county in the US.
No limos.
No perks.
No pension.
No dining rooms,
No barbers.
No airline flights on the taxpayer dime.
Work from home (use the modern video technology) and stay available to constituents 24/7. No bankers hours.
Meet in the geographic center of the 50 states.
The Texas legislature meets for 140 days every 2 years. I hear that most Texans prefer the reverse of that.