Reps. Walz, Peterson sponsor bill to stop congressional raises
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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A bipartisan bill that would end automatic pay increases for members of Congress has the support of two Minnesota Democrats. Reps. Collin Peterson and Tim Walz, who has been returning his automatic raises to the Treasury for two years, are co-sponsors on H.R. 156, a bill introduced by Arizona Democrat Harry Mitchell last week. Absent from the list of 77 co-sponsors: fiscal conservative Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann and John Kline.
Each year Congress members receive a cost-of-living adjustment. This year that would amount to a $4,700 wage increase. Some members see that as an excess.
“People are angered by excesses, whether on Wall Street [or] in Washington. And I think the two freshman classes, both in 2007 and 2009, recognize that,” Mitchell’s office told the Hill.
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Comment posted January 14, 2009 @ 11:09 pm
I don’t begrudge congressmen their pay. It’s expensive to maintain homes at home and in DC, which is an expensive place to live, and then to have to travel frequently between them. So they can have their raises. Tie it to increases in the minimum wage, then the poorest workers get a boost when Congress does. Keep the automatic increases so we get less of some congressman grandstanding over opposing the pay increase.
Comment posted October 11, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
MY HUSBAND RECEIVES RAILROAD RETIREMENT………HE HAS NOT RECEIVED A RAISE IN ALMOST 2YRS, WHY DO THE CONGRESSMEN GET A RAISE ???? I DO’NT HEAR THE TEA BIGOTS COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS SPENDING .IF THE CONGRESSMEN CARED ABOUT THE COUNTRY LIKE THEY PRETEND TO THEY , WOULD REFUSE THE PAY INCREASE, TO HELP PAY DOWN THE NATIONAL DEFT.
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