This is a $2/hour raise...
Think about it in this context: Did you get a $2/hour raise this year?
No.
What is the connection? Am I doing the same work? Am I doing it equally well? And, most importantly, do the market forces compel my bosses to give me a raise so as not to loose me to competitors?
These are the considerations that go into determining someone's pay. What you did was expressing envy: I did not get a raise, why should you? You are also rather presumptuous: are you doing an equally important and complex job as the lawmakers? What gives you the right to think that you are even in the same league.
Since you went that route, I'll counter with another perspective. The whole of the U.S. Senate earns in the course of a whole year less than an "entertainer" Adam Sandler earns in six weeks. Does that not strike you as a problem? And, when was the last time you complained about the pay of Jay Leno or David Letterman (30-40 million)? Or NBA player, who cannot read, think, or even keep track of were their pee-pees go and sire children out-of-wedlock? The last I heard, the average was $600,000 a year -- these morons deserve it and senators do not?