For too long we have been complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens have no idea that members of Congress can retire with full pay after only one term, that they don't pay into Social Security and that they have specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they  have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment). "Ordinary" citizens must live under all those laws. The latest travesty is that Congress will  exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is being considered...in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem quite right.  We do not have an elite class that is above the law.  I truly don't care if they are Democrats, Republicans, Independents or whatever.  The self-serving must stop. 

This is a good way to do that.  It is an idea whose time has come. 
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:
         
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ".