Posted on 06/09/2019 6:07:21 PM PDT by hapnHal
House spending leaders want to break a decade long pay freeze and give members of Congress a cost-of-living bump that could pad their salaries with an extra $4,500 next year.
Congressional salaries have been frozen at about $174,000 since 2009, when Democrats controlled Congress and decided to suspend automatic cost-of-living increases while heading into the 2010 election year.
Now, House Democrats say they are moving forward with fiscal 2020 funding bills that won’t block those pay increases, which are guaranteed by a 1989 federal ethics law.
“There is strong bipartisan support for these modest inflation adjustments,” said Evan Hollander, a spokesperson for the House Appropriations Committee, noting that the panel does not have to take action to allow the automatic increases and will simply be forgoing language that would block the raises.
“If members want to alter or eliminate the [cost-of-living adjustment], they should do so through the authorizing process — not appropriations bills,” Hollander said.
Under current law, lawmakers would receive a 2.6 percent pay adjustment, or $4,500, in January. But boosting congressional pay is always politically difficult.
“I think the American people would think that Congress ought to earn it first,” Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) told reporters this week.
Sure, so long as we can pay them in Zimbabwean dollars.
Let ‘em pass it on a str8 party line vote; then DJT vetoes it. Great campaign material.
I never gave an employee a pay raise for doing nothing. (...ain’t gonna support it now either).
Who is running the RAT Party these days? They just keep stepping into one pile of s**t after another. Not that I’m complaining. LOL Keep up the “good” work RATS! Their political implosion only benefits this country!
Pay all members of Congress $1 Million per year but subtract $50,000 for every vote they cast on the floor.
If anything, we need to cut their salaries in half.
I wouldn’t mind having a fixed salary of $174,000 a year.
Only is they pass a 2 term limit.
Gravy sucking pigs!
Exactly.
They should not be paid anything; their life’s work is to destroy Trump.
Let them go pound sand.
Their performance over the past two years simply does not warrant an increase in compensation.
Stop tripping over your own dicks with the insane “Orange man bad” obsession and we’ll see.
But, look at all the hard work the members of Congress have been doing. oops, sic Sorry President Trump.
President Trump.........
KEEP MAKING AMERICA GREAT (KMAG) Trump 2020
What? For their performance in governing the country? I wonder how many taxpayers it takes to pay the salary of one of those politicians.
Scumbags have not done an fn thing they need to be thrown out on their a##es
I’d be willing to go six years in the House and twelve in the Senate.
I think things would improve markedly.
No. Only if they ALL result immediately . ..and don’t take a pension .
VETO!!!!!
Only thing I can figure is that the CARTEL money has stopped.
There is also strong bipartisan support for beating Evan with a baseball bat, but nobody is doing that.
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