RE: Government Shutdown
01-23-2019, 06:32 AM (This post was last modified: 01-23-2019, 06:33 AM by SilverFang01.)
01-23-2019, 06:32 AM (This post was last modified: 01-23-2019, 06:33 AM by SilverFang01.)
(01-22-2019, 08:45 PM)robkelk Wrote: As for the shutdown...
I wonder whether you folks can get enough States together to exercise their power under Article Five of the Constitution to convene a National Convention to pass a constitutional amendment stating that elected members of the legislative and executive branches are not to receive pay during an "emergency shutdown" of the government. (The Twenty-seventh Amendment already deals with the pay of members of Congress, so this is the appropriate instrument for such a measure.) It has to apply to both branches, not just one.
There is already a move in that direction but is generally considered to be a bad idea, since the last time it happened we ended up replacing the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...47d5f3b3c4
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