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PoliticAverse

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2. You may want to reconsider that...

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Nov 10, 2013, 07:15 PM

Nov 2013

"One group on which the measure is not neutral is members of Congress themselves: It denies them a raise in 2014. That will be the fifth straight year, and sixth out of the last eight, in which congressional pay has been frozen."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/10/21/pay-raise-would-be-wide-reaching-but-exclude-members-of-congress/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/08/15/congress-pay-salaries/2660545/

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Tie the minimum wage & SS to the percentage raise US Congress gets every YEAR! [View all] Omaha Steve Nov 2013 OP

I love it. Only problem with that is they get enough money from lobbyists that they could easily liberal_at_heart Nov 2013 #1

You may want to reconsider that... PoliticAverse Nov 2013 #2

It's a fact-free post. Igel Nov 2013 #4

Republicans would happily accept that offer. tritsofme Nov 2013 #3

I knew there was an automatic clause Omaha Steve Nov 2013 #5

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