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Senators introduce bill to withhold congressional pay during shutdown
Federal News Radio ^ | January 21, 2018 2:31 pm | Nicole Ogrysko @nogryskoWFED

Posted on 01/22/2018 7:05:44 AM PST by COBOL2Java

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To: COBOL2Java

Nice thought, but that’s all it is, a thought. People know that the majority of congressional representatives are millionaires! It would be better to donate your salaries to a military nonprofit to help them with emergency funds to pay monthly expenses during Schumer’s shutdown!


21 posted on 01/22/2018 7:19:54 AM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: simpson96

The military gets paid on the 1st and the 15th.

We are OK until the 1st of Feb’y.

McCaskill was showboating.


22 posted on 01/22/2018 7:20:32 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: COBOL2Java

This is what is called Extreme Virtue Signaling.


23 posted on 01/22/2018 7:20:34 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Everyone knows the money is in the kickbacks and perks not the salary


24 posted on 01/22/2018 7:20:50 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: COBOL2Java

These public serpents have all fattened their bank accounts at the public trough to the point of being millionaires, so they can grandstand with this pitiful show. They know they’ll get their salaries and payoffs the same as always.


25 posted on 01/22/2018 7:21:15 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: PilotDave
How do they have time to conceive of this bill, coordinate all these senators and write and introduce the bill, but not figure out a way to end the shutdown itself?

"Dammit! PilotDave figured out my scam!"


26 posted on 01/22/2018 7:21:19 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: COBOL2Java
Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.),

Joe, you slimy scumbag. This is major grandstanding from a lying son of a thousand fathers who's running scared and faces the voters this year.

PATRICK MORRISEY FOR US SENATE!!!

27 posted on 01/22/2018 7:22:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: COBOL2Java

The 10 are all Dems?


28 posted on 01/22/2018 7:23:30 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem wiath socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: USCG SimTech

I did not know this. What sleaze bags! Democrat-Communists are the most deceptive people on the planet.


29 posted on 01/22/2018 7:23:54 AM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: TruthWillWin
The 10 are all Dems?

Tells you something, doesn't it?

30 posted on 01/22/2018 7:24:06 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04; COBOL2Java
Revising my statement:

Watching the Pro-Amnesty/Democrat Wing of the Republican Party on Faux Snooze right now. Fluckin’ Flake, Grahamnesty, Shakey Collins! Worthless POS’s! Can't even call them RINO's!

31 posted on 01/22/2018 7:24:12 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: COBOL2Java

Andy Harris (R-MD) is really screwing with them. He’s donating his paycheck to a crisis pregnancy center.


32 posted on 01/22/2018 7:24:32 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Whoa.... Whoa whoa whoa.

No one else working for gov is being paid... why are they being paid?


33 posted on 01/22/2018 7:25:02 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: COBOL2Java

Best news yet but they should lose pay. Read my words: LOSE PAY!!!!


34 posted on 01/22/2018 7:25:07 AM PST by Logical me
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To: COBOL2Java

All up for re-election in states that President Trump won! Go figure!


35 posted on 01/22/2018 7:27:29 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: COBOL2Java

Excellent! All red state senators. Interesting. Of course not a republican can be found. Ugh!


36 posted on 01/22/2018 7:28:21 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: ican'tbelieveit
No one else working for gov is being paid... why are they being paid?

Here you go!

Why do politicians and judges get paid during a government shutdown?

37 posted on 01/22/2018 7:28:48 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: Logical me
Best news yet but they should lose pay. Read my words: LOSE PAY!!!!

That's great, but any change in their pay (guess who gets to vote on THAT? LOL!) wouldn't take effect until after the next election of course. See the The Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution.

38 posted on 01/22/2018 7:31:40 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: COBOL2Java

Why stop there. Make Congress live under the laws they impose on us including an end to congressional pension beyond Social Security. Seeing the sponsorship, this is no more than a ploy to take the heat off of them in Battleground states. Internal Democrat polling shows that Democrats loose the shutdown in all the battleground states despite the overwhelming support they get in blue states.


39 posted on 01/22/2018 7:56:49 AM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: COBOL2Java

Only in that it benefits them. Otherwise, they couldn’t care less.


40 posted on 01/22/2018 7:57:35 AM PST by onedoug
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