In Midnight Vote, Senate Opens Door to Giving Themselves $4,900 Pay Raise

AP | 12/08/01

[SR71A]

Does anybody in the f***ing Congress ever read the Constitution? The 27th Amendment prohibits an immediate pay raise...there must be an election before it takes effect...so the voters can reject the selfish scum.

[Bad~Rodeo]

READ the 2nd paragraph.

[VA Advogado]

I'd like to thank the GOP for being such good sports, and only taking $4,900.00 instead of five grand, and making the gov't smaller, and relieving us of a 30% tax burden....

That's less than $3,000,000. It's 8738 $300 tax rebates. That's 1% of the population of ONE congressional district. Surely you have better things to worry about.

[blackbart1]

Good grief, another raise already?

[Bad~Rodeo]

PING and BINGO!!!

[VA Advogado]

Sorry if i STEPPED on your Toes, Senator....LMAO~

Take off your clown shoes. Keep the red rubber nose. You'll still be entertaining.

Bad~Rodeo = Bad~Policy

Bad~Policy = Bad~for~America

Bad~Rodeo = Bad~for~America.

[Bad~Rodeo]

Your ROOTS are showing, handing you a bottle of Peroxide...L~

[Landru]

"After a debate that lasted five minutes late Friday night, the Senate used a 65-33 procedural vote to defeat an effort by Sens. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., to stop the increase from taking effect.""

Strategically engineered to permit the Liberal Dems to come away from this smelling quite clean; never mind the Dashole's running the show.
And that MISERABLE SOB Lott & just enough of his boys on the Right to swing this larceny simply went along for the ride.

...god am I ever sick to death of this kinda crap.

[willyboyishere]

Good point, but the 27th amendment states that Congress cannot grant itself pay raises in the middle of the term of each respective Congresscritter. Did you check the "yeas" and "nays" to see if those who voted against it were in the middle or the end of their terms? (I didn't , but it might be interesting)

[VA Advogado]

Your ROOTS are showing, handing you a bottle of Peroxide...L~

Given your statements on here, I thought Hillary was your favorite blonde.

[Bad~Rodeo]

Question is, WILL WE AS A COUNTRY PASS THIS ON TO OUR CHILDREN??!!

[willyboyishere]

Woops, just noticed that that info was in the body of the posted article. So the question remains, how did they get away with it?

[Bad~Rodeo]

I KNOW where MY MONEY goes, you Leahy?

[rdavis84]

You're on each of the threads going on this issue, aren't you? Well, you didn't answer the question --- What congresscritter do you Intern For?

And here's my statement on another thread --- "Remember when the huge pay raise was implemented some years back? The one that moved "Public Service" out of the equation and made it a valid "Career"? We were forced to listen to how this would be of benefit to us tax paying peons because the Quality of Politician would improve. More average joes could afford to be in Congress.

They've got a sense of humor."

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

After a debate that lasted five minutes late Friday night.....

There you have it folks. Stealth legislooting.

[areafiftyone]

This really angers me. People are out of work and the ones that are employed are really worried about being fired next. How can they just give themselves a pay raise. They disgust me. They should set an example and refuse a pay raise.

[WIMom]

Senate vote alphabetically by state:

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

[D2BAH]

I think the local guy does--this week he "quoted" my wife well over 700 bucks for a cap on one lousy tooth. Not even a root canal (amazed he didn't go after THAT too.) And to think I was feeling sorry for dentists 30 years or so ago when they announced that fluoride would stop decay. And we think drug companies are ripping us off.

[paul51]

There are dentists making more than Senators

They do a lot less damage to. Our congress people are not undercompensated by any means. There is probably good economic reason why people are willing to spend millions to sit in congress. We could slash the pay and still get qualified people to run.

[Landru]

"WILL WE AS A COUNTRY PASS THIS ON TO OUR CHILDREN??!!"

*We* already have, br.
The body is very sick, indeed.
So much so in fact, all that's left looks to be death.

...if this seedy move is indicative of our health.