The failure of Congress to fulfill their duties should provide some penalty to all involved. Currently there is no immediate punishment to Representatives or Senators when they fail to work together to provide a bill that supports continuous government to the people of the United States.

While services are shutdown, all Americans are potentially impacted and hundreds of thousands of families who rely on their income for service to the federal government are in danger of their livelihood when their pay is jeopardized.

As such there should be a punitive incentive for Congress to ensure that they are motivated to never allow political differences to be used to cause a lapse in service or a danger to their workers. Congress should be fined hourly when their malfeasance results in not providing a bill to fund services which results in a shutdown of the federal government.

This punitive fine should be immediate upon their failure to provie a bill with results in government shutdown, incremental and significant. This would be an immediate fine of 10% of their annual pay upon shutdown and it should recur hourly until it a bill is presented to the President. This will ensure that they are duly incentivized to prevent a shutdown and to work diligently throughout the entire shutdown to resolve it. If the President vetoes the bill during a government shutdown, the President shall be fined for the same number of hours of shutdown as the Congress, and the hourly fines shall continue until a bill is presented and signed.