House votes down automatic pay raise

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Source: The Hill

The House followed the Senate’s lead on Tuesday and voted to block their automatic pay raise as they head into a highly-contested election season.

The move marks the third consecutive year that lawmakers have voted to halt their automatic cost of living increase. The law governing congressional pay raises requires members to vote against getting a raise. Otherwise, the raise takes effect automatically.

With Congress’s approval ratings spiraling downward, criticism of government bailouts running rampant, and unemployment hovering at 10 percent, a cost-of-living pay increase for lawmakers has become largely unpopular, and many members have pushed for more long-term halts to their pay, with some actually wanting to cut their salaries.

Last week Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) led the Senate’s charge in rescinding the pay raise, saying that Americans continued to be in financial peril and Congress should not receive a bump in pay in such an economic state.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/94679-house-votes-down-automatic-pay-raise

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1. But like the did the last time, they will let it go thru

later when they think no one is noticing. And they denied the seniors a $250 dollar raise that would have been a life saver for a lot.