Every congressional reform in American history died the same three deaths: gutted in committee, written with exceptions big enough to swallow the rule, or enforced by the very people it was meant to bind. This statute is built to survive all three. Term limits, a real stock-trading ban, no riders, no pay when the budget fails — and enforcement that is automatic, not discretionary, because Congress has never once policed itself.
Members traded stocks in the industries they regulated, on information the public didn’t have, and the penalty for getting caught was a fine smaller than the profit.Check it
Careers ran forty years. Seats became property. Family members were hired onto payrolls, and "public service" turned into a family business.Check it
Bills ran two thousand pages so nobody could read them, with unrelated riders slipped in at 3 a.m. The budget failed — and members were paid anyway.Check it
And every reform aimed at any of this was written, amended, and enforced by the exact people it was supposed to restrain.Check it
Term limits: eight years in the House, twelve in the Senate, with credit for prior service and a defined transition. The career seat is abolished.
A real stock trading ban — blind trusts, defined scope, actual enforcement. You cannot legislate about an industry and bet on it at the same time.
One subject per bill. Riders are prohibited with standing to sue. Every bill gets a plain-language summary. Fail to pass a balanced budget and your pay is suspended.
And where Congress must enforce a rule against itself, the consequence is automatic rather than discretionary — no committee gets to quietly decide not to.
Members served for decades, accruing power that made challenge nearly impossible and turning a seat into a possession.Check it
Eight years in the House, twelve in the Senate, effective on ratification — with credit for prior service and a clear transition. Public office returns to being a term of service.
Members bought and sold stock in the industries they oversaw, sometimes days before news the public couldn’t see — and disclosure violations drew trivial fines.Check it
A stock trading ban with defined scope, mandatory blind trusts, and real enforcement — extending to the people around them, with anti-nepotism enforcement and remedies alongside it.
Unrelated riders were buried in must-pass legislation, so a provision nobody voted for became law because it rode along with one they had to pass.Check itCheck it
Single-subject enforcement and anti-rider procedure, a one-amendment rule with standing and remedies, and a mandatory plain-language summary of chamber rules. If it can’t survive its own vote, it doesn’t get to ride on someone else’s.
Congress missed deadlines, shut the government down, threatened default — and drew full pay throughout.Check itCheck it
Balanced budget pay suspension with defined mechanics: fail, and the pay stops. Automatic continuing-resolution mechanics prevent shutdowns, and impoundment enforcement stops a president from refusing to spend what Congress appropriated.
Leadership could simply decline to schedule a vote, killing legislation — or a constitutional obligation — without anyone ever going on the record.Check it
A congressional vote obligation with a contempt mechanism and ministerial scheduling. Plus a 10% voter petition that forces a vote on a constitutional amendment. Hiding by never voting stops working.
Voter ID rules functioned as documentation tests that excluded eligible citizens, and Election Day was a workday.Check it
Voter ID must be free and genuinely accessible — never a documentation test. Election Day is a holiday with employer obligations and enforcement. Lawful permanent resident voting gets real verification without administrative suppression.
Force authorizations ran forever with no expiration, and pardons could be used corruptly with no mechanism to challenge them.Check it
AUMF expiration with force withdrawal and congressional standing; presidential power zones defined and judicially enforceable; invalid pardons subject to enforcement and criminal liability; and a diplomatic funding floor so war is never the only funded option.
Whatever one Congress built, the next could dismantle on a simple majority — so no reform was ever safe.Check it
Constitutional Statutes are protected by a 60% supermajority requirement with enforcement. Changing them takes genuine cross-party agreement — not a one-seat majority and a reconciliation vote.
This is the plain-language version. The binding text is CS-1, which implements Article Three and Right 34 of the Constitution.
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