Government Shutdown

[robkelk]

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.