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McSally Threatens to Introduce Bill to Withhold Senators Pay “Until Americans are Put Before Politics”
NT ^ | 03-23-20 | Paul Goldberg

Posted on 03/24/2020 3:08:57 PM PDT by Steve1999

Amid deadlock, Senator Martha McSally threatened to introduce a bill withholding Senators pay “until Americans are put before politics” if the coronavirus relief package fails a second time. If the Senate can’t come together in a time of great need, no Senator should receive a paycheck—like millions of Americans. If the urgent COVID-19 relief package fails again, I’m introducing a bill immediately to withhold Senators’ pay until Americans are put before politics.

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To: Steve1999
27th Amendment
No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

Although it was passed to keep them from giving themselves instant raises, it also works for pay cuts.

21 posted on 03/24/2020 3:27:38 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Newton invented calculus when the plague shut down Cambridge. What will you do with your time off?)
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To: Steve1999

Quarantine CONGRE$$ and eliminate 75% of their pay. Eliminate 75% of all agencies and ngos and 100% pf ALL foreign aide forever. Great time to do/justify it. Surely pro-Americans will agree.


22 posted on 03/24/2020 3:29:17 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Steve1999
Big deal. A junior congress person makes about $170,000 a year. You can more or less live on that in the DC metro where tiny, crappy houses start at $700,000.

Men and women in congress from some of the poorest locations in the country are MULTI-MILLIONAIRES. How did they get that?

Do the math. Our congress is a bastion of evil thieves.

23 posted on 03/24/2020 3:30:16 PM PDT by FalloutShelterGirl (Cool! I found my original screen name!)
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To: Steve1999

If you withhold the payola then you might have something ...


24 posted on 03/24/2020 3:32:06 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Steve1999

To withhold their pay you’d have to find out who’s paying them.


25 posted on 03/24/2020 3:33:00 PM PDT by marron
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To: Steve1999
President Trump donates his Presidential salary to charity. He has lost about a billion dollars since becoming President. He left the luxurious life of a multibillionaire and risked EVERYTHING to save the USA and the American People.

He TOWERS intellectually AND MORALLY over those vile parasites of the Corrupt Establishment who prey on the American People and are interested only in "What's in it for me?" especially those who go to Washington with meager means and, within a few years, are millionaires with money laundering "charitable foundations," and over those who have attempted to destroy him to prevent the exposure of their crimes and corruption.

Everyone knows this.

The honest acknowledge it.

The benevolent give President Trump their full support--and appreciation.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
GOD BLESS YOU!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!

26 posted on 03/24/2020 3:38:47 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Curse of intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything you know won't work!)
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Yeah, I guess McSally is just too new to the game to realize that their salaries are completely insignificant in the game. Pocket change. Now if she could figure out how to cut off their graft, bribes and insider trading, she might be able to make a threat that would matter.


27 posted on 03/24/2020 3:40:45 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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no pay plus a fine


28 posted on 03/24/2020 3:42:00 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: Steve1999

BFD. Theater - nothing more.

Senators don’t live on their salary. They live on all the perks of being a senator. It’s called corruption.

Joe Biden has never had a job. Yet he is worth millions. He didn’t acquire all that money from saving his senator’s salary and it’s always been pretty obvious he isn’t intelligent enough to earn it through astute investments. And it isn’t just the Rats. Most of the senators see their position as just a pathway to wealth and power.

And they don’t serve us, they rule us.


29 posted on 03/24/2020 3:42:36 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: LegendHasIt

......Or maybe she realizes that, and is just grandstanding to get her name in the news and be a “Maverick” like McCain was.


30 posted on 03/24/2020 3:45:49 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Steve1999

With over 40 senators worth 8 million to 600 million how will this affect them?


31 posted on 03/24/2020 3:46:51 PM PDT by Ndorfin (Kitties,titties, and fiddies)
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To: RatRipper

Hawkeye Pierce would never have said that, he was a leftist Democrat.


32 posted on 03/24/2020 3:48:29 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Steve1999

There must be 535 self-funding Americans out of 330 MILLION and would do what’s best for their fellow citizens for a term or 2.


33 posted on 03/24/2020 3:50:20 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: KarlInOhio

Ditto! You beat me to it.


34 posted on 03/24/2020 3:50:30 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

However, it (The 27th. Amendment) says nothing about the pay of congressional staffers. They don’t get paid until the crisis is over.

I can guarantee that if Nanzi and Chuckie have to answer their own telephones, make their own coffee, type their own letters, etc. the unlarded legislation would pass.


35 posted on 03/24/2020 4:02:09 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: libh8er

Congress is the house and Senate, two separate entities.


36 posted on 03/24/2020 4:05:45 PM PDT by saturn
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To: Steve1999

Nice I hope someone will support her.


37 posted on 03/24/2020 4:14:30 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: saturn

I know, I was referring to the House.


38 posted on 03/24/2020 4:23:18 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Steve1999

This kind of grandstanding BS is just as bad as Pelosi.


39 posted on 03/24/2020 4:49:13 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Steve1999

“It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
—Thomas Sowell


40 posted on 03/24/2020 6:31:00 PM PDT by hadit2here ("If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.")
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