A U.S. Senate amendment introduced this week proposes stripping Congressional pay during any government shutdown.

As the current shutdown approaches the one-month mark Saturday, several Nevada Congress members reached by the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday said they’re already not getting paid — by choice.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, on Wednesday introduced a proposed change to a clause in the Constitution that exempts lawmakers from the fate of federal employees who are furloughed or required to work without pay when government funding runs out.

“If Members of Congress had to forfeit their pay during government shutdowns, there would be fewer shutdowns and they would end quicker,” Graham said in a news release.

Congressional officials in nonleadership roles earn an annua

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