Congress should not be a career consisting of drinks, dinners and speeches and should not be designed as such; all benefits should be removed and each congress person should be presented with a place to live (dorm type), medical while serving, no retirement plan or benefits unless set up and paid personally , transportation to and from congress should be furnished and overseas trips should be a personal expense paid for by the office holder not the tax payers; it is way past time for people to ask how a person can go to congress and work for the people and accumulate millions in their bank accounts, all monies paid by outside sources should be given to the people not the politicians whether trips, items or cash.
This would go hand in hand with term limits just as the presidency has (two terms) otherwise only the rich would be able to serve because everybody else would need to return to whatever career they earned a living at. The United States of America does not need 90 year old office holders who have been in office for 40 years; our country does not need a dynasty that lives off of the people while active in office or retired from office, let’s leave this to the Europeans.
No foreigners should ever be allowed to contribute to the American congress via campaign contributions direct or indirect; all contributions must be accompanied with a money trail proving the starting point. If they are not a legal immigrant or a citizen then they should not be allowed to interfere with our elections.
John R. Stanczak