Posted on 05/19/2015 10:40:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The one thing most Americans can agree on is that members of Congress do not need a pay raise. But that didn’t stop one Democrat lawmaker from stating his case.
At a hearing regarding the 2016 Legislative Branch appropriations bill yesterday, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) said that his salary of $174,000 a year simply isn’t enough to live on in Washington, D.C. […]
Congress’ current approval rating is 19 percent. …
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Hasting is another convicted felon still in office because his base consists of “Gimedats”
Maybe they could consider spending more time at home among the people they’re supposed to represent.
I’ll gladly give them all a raise if they agree to a 75% tax rate on any money made peddling influence after they leave office. And no “Foundation” BS allowed either.
Annuities, in the form of wealth transfer (welfare/ETB) given predominantly to blacks, in exchange for their tacit agreement to reciprocate by not burning down America's cities.
Synonymous with: Tribute, Baksheesh, Danegeld, Reparaions
“that his salary of $174,000 a year simply isn’t enough to live on in Washington, D.C. […] “
That’s why Congress was NEVER suppose to live in DC but in the districts they represent so they could effectively speak for us.
We need to get back to that.
Make them part time
174K a year and all the graft you can handle.
Nice work if you can get it.
-PJ
OMG this fool must be kidding! If anything, their pay should be SLASHED until they come up with a realistic, balanced budget! By an amount commeasurate with the deficit they vote for...I figure 10k for every billion over budget should cover it!
No, but it is enough to live on in Florida,
In other words he is open for business..
Thank you.....I will correct my spelling immediately
They should be tarred & feathered, ran out of town on a rail, and then convicted of crimes against America.
No way these “public servant” pukes should get a raise.
1. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Florida): Negative $4.7 million
Yes, in 2011 this scumbag was reported to be 4.7 million in the hole.
He should be in prison, not in Congress....another example of the corrupt Democrat party.
That’s a joke, right?
Bill & Hillary feel his pain. They too are having such a hard time scraping by. My heart breaks as well.
Former judge, Impeached and convicted of extortion
By Ruth Marcus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 21, 1989
U.S. District Judge Alcee L. Hastings was convicted by the Senate yesterday of engaging in a "corrupt conspiracy" to extort a $150,000 bribe in a case before him, marking the first time a federal official has been impeached and removed from office for a crime he had been acquitted of by a jury.
In a solemn and tense session, the Senate voted 69 to 26 -- five votes more than needed for conviction -- to find Hastings guilty of the major charge against him and strip the 53-year-old jurist of his lifetime, $89,500-a-year position.
Hastings, Florida's first black federal trial judge, sat facing the senators as the lawmakers rose, one by one, to render their verdicts on the charge that he conspired with disbarred Washington lawyer William A. Borders Jr. to obtain the bribe.
The outcome of the proceeding -- eight years after Hastings was first accused and five years after a jury found him not guilty -- was unclear until nearly the end of the first roll call. Both the chairman, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), and the vice chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), of the 12-member panel that heard the evidence in the case voted for acquittal. The 12 members of the panel voted 7 to 5 for conviction.
What? Minimum wage ain’t enough for them any more?
Productivity, people, productivity. THAT’S the key to getting a really deserved raise.
But hold it, what they produce in Congress is - laws. And we have WAY too many of them already, how about basing their pay on REPEALING some of the mass of laws that have accumulated in the past couple of hundred years?
And especially since 1976?
” 1. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Florida): Negative $4.7 million”
Drug habit, or inveterate gambler.
Either way, F you Hastings.
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