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I don't think problems are solved with term limits. Given the current structure of the House and Senate + voting trends, all you'd see is "party selected" people running for the seats. I think you'd also see a lot of families running to keep a seat ripe for corruption. I suspect we'd have the same problems with new faces.
What needs to be done is making it as hard to corrupt these fuckers as possible. Growing the House would be a good start. If the number of Reps were quadrupled, scum would have a harder time corrupting ~ 850 people. Right now, corrupting ~215 is pretty frigging easy. You need to make half of the size of the House = a larger number.
They also need to add members after each census like they used to. The size of the House was frozen back in the early 1900s. The House is supposed to grow after each Census. They stopped growing it for a reason, and it wasn't in our best interest. Your voice is diluted as the population grows. Remember, the House is for the rabble rousers ... it is not supposed to be a calm, orderly place where legislation is easy to pass. Each law that is passed = removal of liberty. Individual States can pass all the laws they want if liberals need to get off passing stuff. Passing a law in DC should be extremely difficult.
On top of growing the House, many of those perks those scumbags get need to go. Being a Representative isn't a frigging career move. It's supposed to be a civic duty. It is not supposed to be this mini-Senate that they've created where each Rep brings pork back to their little dominion while living a life of luxury the entire time they occupy that seat. Their current salary could remain the base rate these goons earn, but instead of a guaranteed yearly salary, make pay an hourly rate based on that salary. "Representative" should be a part time job. It shouldn't be a pathway to financial independence.
Finally, assuming security is in place that isn't controlled by some DS corporation, let the House vote remotely. If we need a formal House where they can meet up, move it to the center of the USA (along with the Senate and WH). That way DC can become disbanded and distributed between MD and VA (don't worry, if the corruption isn't concentrated in that area, both states would become less "blue"). What we don't need are these Reps crammed into a little territory where they can become all buddy-buddy over the years and work to fuck everyone over. That keeps Representatives in their districts more often than not ... they'd have no excuses when it comes to facing constituents.
What we have right now is engineered to be bought. Changes need to be made. If we can win this fight, get rid of the existing corruption, and have an opportunity to overhaul the Federal Government via something like a Convention of States, implementing the ideas proposed above would be a big step forward in making DC much harder to corrupt.