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 cant come together in a time of great need, no Senator should receive a paychecklike millions of Americans. If the urgent COVID-19 relief package fails again, Im introducing a bill immediately to withhold Senators pay until Americans are put before politics.
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not enuf.
She only threatens because she doesnt want to be embarrassed when no one else supports it.
That’s a good start!
I’d wager my 401k losses that not one of these aholes lives off their salary.
Get to the heart of the matter: Pelosi and Schumer sentenced to life in front of a firing squad . . . in the words of Hawkeye Pierce
Big deal they’re still gonna get paid...most of them are millionaire grifters anyway.
horrible unelected RINO trying to get air-time and gain relevancy...
this AZ senate seat in danger by a gun grabber this november
Add “and all federal government workers.”
That’ll do it.
BFD..their salary is paltry compared to the graft.
WELL DO IT!
Will never happen. They paid themselves during the budget shutdown.
If they passed a bill freezing their net worths for 10 years to what they were before they were elected, I would pay attention. Pigs will fly first.
Talk is cheap. Why doesnt she just forfeit her own pay, announce it then shut up about it
She could mention that Trump forfeits his pay
These people are slime
Senate is not the problem. Congress is.
Yep youre more than right Ill bet. Theyre living off everyones 401K losses.
Actually I don’t think Congressmen, Senators or Presidents should receive any pay at all!
Who wants someone in office who cannot make enough of a success of themselves to enable them to take a few years out of their comfortable lives to serve their country?
It was always supposed to be a few years of service NOT a stinkin career where they somehow magically manage to go from rags to riches!
Threaten all you want, the bill is going nowhere.
Their pay is just walking around money compared to their other sources of enrichment.
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