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With economy in shambles, Congress gets a raise |
A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who
have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for
free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.
Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting
to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional
salaries,
“As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives
to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for
their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell,
Steve Ellis, vice president of the budget watchdog
Taxpayers for Common Sense, said Congress should have taken the rare step of
freezing its pay, as lawmakers did in 2000.
clipped from: thehill.com