Can you believe the nerve of these buttwipes in Congress? Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, who refuse to do anything to help this country deal with things like the illegal alien invasion on the southern border have bigger ideas for the House. The Democrats and some worthless Republicans want more money to sit on their ass and play the Russia collusion game. The nerve of these people is enough to make anyone’s blood boil. Democrats and some Republican feel it’s “unfair” not given themselves another pay raise.
| Nancy Pelosi House Democrats trying to vote themselves pay raises, $174,000/yr isn’t enough |
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Democrats in the House are beginning to put together budget requests for 2020, Politico reports, and they’re considering breaking the “decade-long” Congressional pay freeze, which has kept Congressional salaries at a modest $174,000 since the state of President Barack Obama’s tenure.
The request would end the pay freeze and give Members of Congress a $4,700-per-year boost in pay to keep their salaries “current” with what the market apparently demands for legislators.
Members of Congress say the pay bump is only fair, and that they’ve been forgoing cost-of-living increases for a decade, even though they are guaranteed regular bumps in pay to coincide with “inflation” and hikes in “cost of living” expenses. The team authoring the measure calls the raise “modest.”
“There is strong bipartisan support for these modest inflation adjustments,” a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee told Politico, adding that if other Members of Congress feal the raise is unfair or untoward, there are avenues to block the pay increase.
“If members want to alter or eliminate the [cost-of-living adjustment], they should do so through the authorizing process — not appropriations bills,” he said.