Thursday, June 30, 2005

House Agrees to Cost of Living Pay Raise

The House on agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year to $165,200 after defeating an effort to roll it back. The vote came as the House debated a spending bill containing a provision to guarantee a 3.1% pay increase for federal civilian workers. In a 263-152 vote, the House blocked a bid by Rep Jim Matheson (D-UT) to force an up or down vote on the pay raise. Instead, lawmakers will automatically receive the raise officially as a cost of living adjustment (COLA) as provided for in a 1989 law that barred them from pocketing big speaking fees in exchange for an annual COLA. Matheson said: "Now is not the time for members of Congress to be voting themselves a pay raise. We need to be willing to make sacrifices." Yeah, do ya think?
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