Dems halt effort to secure pay increase for lawmakers, as contempt votes, funding drama loom

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-lawmakers-pay-increase-contempt-votes-funding | 10 June 19 | hapnHal

[hapnHal]

House Democrats on Monday evening abruptly halted an effort to increase congressional pay for the first time since 2009, saying the proposal would be reviewed carefully after several freshman Democrats made overt efforts to block it.

Members of Congress generally make $174,000 per year, with senior leaders earning more, and no cost-of-living adjustments have been made in the past nine years. However, vulnerable swing-state Democrats, concerned how the pay hike would look if it didn't also have Republican support, had signed onto amendments rejecting the measure.

“It needs more discussion,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., told Fox News.

The turnaround was one in a series of dramatic developments during a whirlwind day on Capitol Hill, with many more potentially still to come. In the evening, the Democrat-led House Rules Committee conducted a hearing in which it prepared a resolution for debate Tuesday that would enforce a subpoena via contempt for both Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn.

The resolution does not mention contempt by name. But it is, for all intents and purposes, a civil contempt resolution. The full House is expected to vote on the resolution Tuesday.

"I wish we didn’t have to be here today," Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said at the hearing. "I wish Donald Trump acted more like a president and less like a king. But this resolution is necessary because of his actions and those of his administration."

[Skywise]

Odd... don’t seem to see AoC in the headlines leading the charge there...

[JudgemAll]

Nice to hear they voted themselves an increase in 2009as the nation was reeling from a huge recession and standards ofmliving for the working man were dropping.

[mrsmith]

More money to be made by pleasing donors anyway LOL!

[4Liberty]

That Harassment Slush fund’s their “raise,” grrr.........

[V K Lee]

Prior to any raises, suggest we administer a job evaluation report on every Tom, Dick, and Harry, Suzy Q and Mary Lou.

What a crock! They’ve been smoking some good weed (and we paid for that, too) Obligations, the upper crust speaks of obligations??? Grrrr.

[hapnHal]

Well, NO PAY RAISE FOR CONGRESS. Think I’m going to cry..Boo-Hoo. How is OAC, Illhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib going to get by? Well, maybe Nancy could loan them some money. How about submitting a bill, and give the money to the illegals. Or better yet, use the money to help build the wall.

[puppypusher]

This country is being invaded every day by illegal alians with the encouragement of the rat party and they are placing handcuffs on the Border Patrol and DHS preventing the ejection of those same alians from this country at the working tax payers expense.

Pay Raise.They don’t Deserve a pay raise they need to be fired,But that’s expecting too much.

They don’t deserve a pay raise and i’d Hope that the President would veto any bill that had that pay raise tacked on.

[ZOOKER]

Those poor pathetic congressfolk.
Haven’t had a raise in ten years.
Can’t even afford a decent place to live, AOC says.
Yet they all become millionaires somehow.
It’s a mystery...

[justa-hairyape]

Okay we will give you a clown impeachment only if we get a pay raise. Sleazeballs.

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[Vaduz]

Congressional pay should be cut off you have to work to earn pay they don’t nothing but chair warmers that whine a lot and prevent things getting from done a very useless lot.
They have NO shame.

[Tudorfly]

Watch em, watch em, watch em! They are lying cheats and will try to sneak the raise in via one bill or another.