[Publius6961]

However, at 2.8 percent, the automatic raise that lawmakers receive is only half as large as the 2009 cost of living adjustment of Social Security recipients.

Strange...

Not a word as to how this "automatic raise" came about.

Please don't tell me that they voted on their own raise --- forever?

Or to put it a more useful way, how do we, the employers, undo this BS?

I say we freeze their pay (and per diem) until it's more in line with the "middle class."

[kenth]

Wasn’t it done late one night behind closed doors, without the normal media present? It was a few years back. Or am I thinking of another raise they gave themselves?

[sarasmom]

How about we cancel it?
And make it retroactive to 1776.

Just an idle thought....

[PistolPaknMama]

Not a word as to how this "automatic raise" came about.

That's what I was wondering too.

[brytlea]

I have said for years that their salary should be tied to the median income in some way. Of course, I also think we should have term limits which would also eliminate the need for pensions. Let them have a 401K like the rest of us peons.