[Bubba Ho-Tep]

So this is saying that a Senator can't vote to raise the pay for an office, and then take that office until their term is expired?

Except that this particular pay raise was an executive order from President Bush. There was no vote.

[Political Junkie Too]

It looks like a literal reading of the clause says "shall have been increased during such time," which does not imply that the Senate had to directly vote on it.

But, what's another Constitutional clause to be discarded in the pursuit of power? I still wonder why the people of New London, CT, freely gave up their homes because the Supreme Court ordered them to, when clearly nobody else has to follow the Constitution anymore.

-PJ