Why not vote to reduce congressional and presidential pay by 15%, then freeze it for 5 years, and have them claim "all" travel expenses. Next install a term limit and finish with a set number of years that one must serve in order to collect the congressional pay, which would be a greater amount of time than the term limit provisions. Then we shall see some real cost savings. I won't mention them having to actually pay for health care, the middle class will continue to fund that. But that middle class will become smaller as the military falls back into poverty status.
A presidential commission on reducing the deficit has recommended freezing basic military pay and housing allowances for three years starting in 2011, according to a draft report of the commission’s recommendations posted online Wednesday.
“A three-year freeze at 2011 levels for these compensation categories would save the federal government $7.6 billion in compensation and tax expenditures, as well as another $1.6 billion in less retirement accrual, or $9.2 billion total discretionary savings in 2015,” it said.
http://www.military.com/news/article...itary-pay.html