Section 8 – Compensation
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Congress shall not establish a commission nor any other structure that will determine the salary of government employees.
All governmental salaries shall be set at 95% of their equivalent private company salary to be determined by the average of the results from three private compensation tracking companies except as noted in this Constitution.
All government salaries must be voted on in both houses of Congress and must pass with a majority of 60%.
No government employee shall be compensated more than 75% of a Representative except as noted elsewhere.
All members of Congress, all members of the cabinet, judges and other senior officials designated by Congress shall be compensated at a rate of twice that of the median American salary.
No government employee shall be given a pension by the government. They shall be permitted to establish a 401K savings plan not run by the government just as do many United States Citizens.
No government employee will be given government-provided healthcare. They shall be permitted to establish a health savings account not run by the government just as do many United States Citizens.
Section 9 – Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto
The Congress is prohibited from approving a budget in peacetime where National Defense receives less than 50% of the total taxes collected.
All bills for raising Taxes of any kind shall originate in the House of Representatives. The Senate may vote Aye or Nay but are prohibited from altering the bills in any way. This is necessary as the Senate has the power of Appointments and it is important to level the powers of the two Houses as near as possible. The Senate may make suggestion for changes to the House, which the House may accept or reject.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within fourteen Days after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.