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Posted on 01/22/2018 7:05:44 AM PST by COBOL2Java
Though federal employees won’t get a paycheck during the governmment shutdown, members of Congress will — unless they specify otherwise.
Ten Democratic senators on Friday introduced a bill that would withhold pay for members of Congress during the government shutdown.
The legislation comes from Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), along with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.).
“It’s wrong that members of Congress would still get paid in the event of a shutdown while paychecks for members of our military could be disrupted,” Stabenow said in a statement. “This bill ensures members of Congress will not get paid and another bill I have cosponsored makes sure our troops will. Even if these bills do not pass, I will donate my salary for every single day a shutdown occurs.”
Several members of Congress have also announced individual plans to withhold their pay.
“I have been informed that despite a lapse of appropriations and current government shutdown, under current law, members of Congress would continue to receive their salary,” Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) wrote Friday in a letter to the House chief administrative officer. “Since I do not agree with that policy, please withhold my pay until an appropriations agreement has taken effect.
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) also said he would withhold his pay, while Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) said that he would donate his pay to the Mercy Health Clinic in Maryland.
There’s no good reason why Members should receive pay during a #shutdown while fed employees suffer.
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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!
The military gets paid on the 1st and the 15th.
We are OK until the 1st of Feb’y.
McCaskill was showboating.
This is what is called Extreme Virtue Signaling.
Everyone knows the money is in the kickbacks and perks not the salary
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.
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.
The 10 are all Dems?
I did not know this. What sleaze bags! Democrat-Communists are the most deceptive people on the planet.
Tells you something, doesn't it?
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!
Andy Harris (R-MD) is really screwing with them. He’s donating his paycheck to a crisis pregnancy center.
Whoa.... Whoa whoa whoa.
No one else working for gov is being paid... why are they being paid?
Best news yet but they should lose pay. Read my words: LOSE PAY!!!!
All up for re-election in states that President Trump won! Go figure!
Excellent! All red state senators. Interesting. Of course not a republican can be found. Ugh!
Here you go!
Why do politicians and judges get paid during a government shutdown?
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.
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.
Only in that it benefits them. Otherwise, they couldn’t care less.
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