{"id":444,"date":"2009-12-29T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2009-12-29T20:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:27:33","slug":"a-way-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"A Way to Fix It .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOW ABOUT GETTING THIS BILL PASSED?<\/p>\n<p>A friend sent this along to me. I can&#8217;t think of a reason to disagree.<br \/>\nMy friend and neighbor wants to promote a &#8220;Congressional Reform Act of 2010.&#8221; \u00a0It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>I know many of you will say, &#8220;this is impossible.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0Let me remind you, Congress has the lowest approval of any entity in Government, now is the time when Americans can join together to reform Congress &#8211; the entity that &#8220;represents&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>We need to get a Senator to introduce this bill in the U.S. Senate and a Representative to introduce a similar bill in the U.S. House. \u00a0These people should become American heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nMaurice<\/p>\n<p>***********************************<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congressional Reform Act of 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <strong>Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A. Two Six year Senate terms<br \/>\nB. Six Two year House terms<br \/>\nC. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong><strong>No Tenure \/ No Pension:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Congress (past, present &amp; future) participates in Social Security:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately.<br \/>\nAll future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.<\/strong><br \/>\nServing in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.<\/strong><br \/>\nServing in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. \u00a0Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.<\/strong><br \/>\nServing in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned \u00a0citizen legislators; serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.<\/strong><br \/>\nServing in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.<\/strong><br \/>\nServing in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1\/1\/2011. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.<\/strong><br \/>\nServing in Congress is an honor, not a career. \u00a0The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW ABOUT GETTING THIS BILL PASSED? A friend sent this along to me. I can&#8217;t think of a reason to disagree. My friend and neighbor wants to promote a &#8220;Congressional Reform Act of 2010.&#8221; \u00a0It would contain eight provisions, all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}