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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

Harry Reid and the Senate haven't passed a budget. Their pay should be reduced until they do.

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.

Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.

Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.