According to The Hill Congress will be getting a significant pay raise next year--a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries. Aren't these the same people who asked the auto execs to cut their salary to $1 a year. It seems to me that if salary is based on performance, Congress should not be getting a raise. This represents approximately a $400 a month raise. How many ordinary people in America are getting a raise like that this year?
According to the article:
"Rep. Harry Mitchell, a first-term Democrat from Arizona, sponsored legislation earlier this year that would have prevented the automatic pay adjustments from kicking in for members next year. But the bill, which attracted 34 cosponsors, failed to make it out of committee."
Keeping a bill in committee is a way of avoiding having any congressman actually have to take a stand and actually vote on an issue. It really is time for term limits. Representatives should be allowed to serve three terms and Senators one term.
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