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In Midnight Vote, Senate Opens Door to Giving Themselves $4,900 Pay Raise
AP | 12/08/01

Posted on 12/08/2001 8:52:29 AM PST by Bad~Rodeo

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Time to Get out the VOTE AMERICA!!!
1 posted on 12/08/2001 8:52:29 AM PST by Bad~Rodeo
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Fourteen of the 30 senators running for re-election next year voted against the pay raise. Two who will retire in January - Sens. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, and Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. - voted for the increase, while a third retiree - Jesse Helms, R-N.C. - did not vote.

Thank God these dithering old fools are retiring. I'm voting for the Constitution Party in '02 and '04.

2 posted on 12/08/2001 9:02:15 AM PST by Holden Magroin
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Feingold questioned the timing of a congressional pay boost when "our economy is in a recession and hundreds of thousands of workers have been laid off." He also noted that the string of four straight budget surpluses is now expected to end. .

Never thought I'd agree with Feingold.

The rest of the country is sacrificing during this wartime. Why can't Congress?

3 posted on 12/08/2001 9:02:41 AM PST by Gelato
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Don't lie. It happened at 10pm. This is less than a cost of living increase. (YAWN) I suppose you would rather be governed by the likes of Hillary, Cantwell, Kennedy, Corzine and Rockefeller. The ones that don't need the pay. Pathetic.
4 posted on 12/08/2001 9:04:44 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Fascinating how people can get all hot and bothered by $500,000 and bills with pork provisions for tens of millions of dollars will go completely unnoticed.

At some point people need to grow up about the congressional salary issue. Doesn't look like it will ever happen. There are dentists making more than Senators.

5 posted on 12/08/2001 9:06:15 AM PST by John H K
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There are dentists making more than Senators.

Dentists earn it.

6 posted on 12/08/2001 9:08:16 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: VA Advogado
This is less than a cost of living increase. (YAWN) I suppose you would rather be governed by the likes of Hillary, Cantwell, Kennedy, Corzine and Rockefeller.

I'd rather they just take the money and stay at home about 11 and 1/2 months a year. Anything they need to do actually mandated by the US Consittution could be handled in less than two weeks. No one is safe when these fools are in session doing the "peoples business".

sui

10 posted on 12/08/2001 9:13:15 AM PST by suijuris
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To: VA Advogado
Don't lie. It happened at 10pm. This is less than a cost of living increase. (YAWN) I suppose you would rather be governed by the likes of Hillary, Cantwell, Kennedy, Corzine and Rockefeller. The ones that don't need the pay. Pathetic.

No actually I'd like to see the likes of them in a military uniform in Afganistan. I would also like to see them live on military pay and get a mere 5% pay raise while they are under combat situations for most of the year. They don't deserve the raise. Their preformance in both parties and houses is pathetic. Why do they deserve it? For thinking up new ways to subvert the constitution?

11 posted on 12/08/2001 9:14:02 AM PST by cva66snipe
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To: Bad~Rodeo
here they are

Alphabetical by Senator Name 
Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Allard (R-CO), Yea
Allen (R-VA), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Nay
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Biden (D-DE), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Nay
Breaux (D-LA), Nay
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bunning (R-KY), Yea
Burns (R-MT), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Nay
Campbell (R-CO), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Carnahan (D-MO), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Chafee (R-RI), Nay
Cleland (D-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Nay
Corzine (D-NJ), Yea
Craig (R-ID), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Daschle (D-SD), Nay
Dayton (D-MN), Nay
DeWine (R-OH), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Domenici (R-NM), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
 Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Edwards (D-NC), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Fitzgerald (R-IL), Yea
Frist (R-TN), Nay
Graham (D-FL), Nay
Gramm (R-TX), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Nay
Hagel (R-NE), Nay
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Helms (R-NC), Not Voting
Hollings (D-SC), Nay
Hutchinson (R-AR), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Jeffords (I-VT), Not Voting
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kennedy (D-MA), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lott (R-MS), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Nay
 McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Miller (D-GA), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Nickles (R-OK), Nay
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
Santorum (R-PA), Nay
Sarbanes (D-MD), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Smith (R-NH), Yea
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Stevens (R-AK), Nay
Thomas (R-WY), Nay
Thompson (R-TN), Nay
Thurmond (R-SC), Nay
Torricelli (D-NJ), Nay
Voinovich (R-OH), Nay
Warner (R-VA), Nay
Wellstone (D-MN), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
 

12 posted on 12/08/2001 9:14:14 AM PST by Bogey78O
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I would also like to see them live on military pay

A Congressional barracks!

13 posted on 12/08/2001 9:16:25 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: VA Advogado
Your Liberalism is showing...LOL~
14 posted on 12/08/2001 9:17:01 AM PST by Bad~Rodeo
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Your Liberalism is showing...LOL~

Your dishonesty and willingness to submit your life to Hillary is showing.

15 posted on 12/08/2001 9:17:49 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: Bogey78O
!!!GREAT,THANKS!!!
16 posted on 12/08/2001 9:18:27 AM PST by Bad~Rodeo
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To: VA Advogado
BTW if they want more money they can go back to their careers. For example Frist can go back to being a doctor and Thompson an actor. The sooner the better IMO.
17 posted on 12/08/2001 9:18:59 AM PST by cva66snipe
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To: VA Advogado
Obviously YOU have me confused with ANOTHER Cigar Smoker...L~
18 posted on 12/08/2001 9:19:25 AM PST by Bad~Rodeo
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To: John H K
At some point people need to grow up about the congressional salary issue. Doesn't look like it will ever happen. There are dentists making more than Senators.

This gives a guy like Bad~Rodeo a chance to front for the likes of people like Corzine. Better to buy an election then to work for it - that seems to be what Bad is supporting.

19 posted on 12/08/2001 9:19:29 AM PST by VA Advogado
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Sorry if i STEPPED on your Toes, Senator....LMAO~
20 posted on 12/08/2001 9:21:12 AM PST by Bad~Rodeo
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