Congress is underpaid.

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Cry me a river: Retiring Moran says Congress is ?underpaid? | Fox News

With nothing to lose — except perhaps sympathy from any American making less than $174,000 a year — retiring Democratic Virginia Congressman Jim Moran said in an interview with CQ Roll Call on Thursday that members of Congress are “underpaid.”

 

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“I think the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid," said Moran, noting that many congressmen have to rent a small apartment in Washington or sleep in their offices because they have a home in their district. “I understand that it’s widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world.”


Well if that doesn't make it clear to you that dems think they run America, nothing will.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Funny stuff

 

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Funny stuff

you can't make it up

The most inefficient group of people the world has ever know, is underpaid.

they should live on bag rice and fat back

 

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[Disir]

Pfffftttt...........underpaid.


Pfffftttt...........

 

[aaronleland]

I'd actually be for paying them more if they did less. Please, take another vacation. Hell, take the year off.

 

[blackhawk]

Congress is many things underpaid is not one of them.

 

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I'd actually be for paying them more if they did less. Please, take another vacation. Hell, take the year off.

$200k/yr to get nothing done?

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[LordBrownTrout]

Making that type of money and screwing things up on a daily basis. What a deal.

 

[Seawytch]

Compared to CEOs they are underpaid...compared to the rest of us with our stagnant wages...they're just "regular folks".

 

[Sallow]

Compared to CEOs they are underpaid...compared to the rest of us with our stagnant wages...they're just "regular folks".

Most of the folks in congress, are millionaires.

And they didn't make their money sitting in Congress.

So to a certain extent this is a correct assessment.

Most of the people who are now in congress would make more money in the private sector.

 

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That's why the cons always give themselves a pay raise at midnight.

 

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That's why the cons always give themselves a pay raise at midnight.

hey moran, it was the dems that passed and continue to support their automatic raises.

fucking retard, just how ignorant of the world are you?

 

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Compared to CEOs they are underpaid...compared to the rest of us with our stagnant wages...they're just "regular folks".

apples to hand cranks

coes make money at companies
pol take money and make nothing
their wages are not stagnant, dems make sure they get auto raises every year

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Compared to CEOs they are underpaid...compared to the rest of us with our stagnant wages...they're just "regular folks".

Because the regular folks are making near 200k? Gtfo

 

[JWBooth]

Funny stuff

you can't make it up

The most inefficient group of people the world has ever know, is underpaid.

they should live on bag rice and fat back

Be proud of the inefficiency and lack of production. The real horror would be if the ever got their act together.

 

[Claudette]

Congress is doing exactly whats its supposed to do. Fight itself with one side opposing what the other is trying to do.

As for salaries? Since no one was EVER supposed to make a living as a politician one has to wonder why they get payed at all. After all. They are supposed to be serving the people. Not makin a living.

As for what they get payed? Wonder if they include all those perks they get as part of the salary??

 

[hangover]

That's why the cons always give themselves a pay raise at midnight.

hey moran, it was the dems that passed and continue to support their automatic raises.

fucking retard, just how ignorant of the world are you?

You should check your facts before showing what an idiot you are.

2001
Members received a January 2001 annual pay adjustment of 2.7%, which increased their salary to
$145,100 from $141,300.

2002
Members received a pay adjustment of 3.4% in January 2002, increasing their salary to $150,000
from $145,100.

2003
Members received a pay adjustment of 3.1% in January 2003, increasing their salary to $154,700
from $150,000.

2004
Members received a pay adjustment of 2.2% in 2004, increasing their salary to $158,100 from
$154,700. The adjustment was effective in two stages. The first adjustment increased Members’
salary by 1.5%, to which they were initially limited because by law they may not receive an annual adjustment greater than the increase in the base pay of GS federal employees. After the passage of the FY2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which provided an average 4.1% GS pay increase, Members received the full 2.2% pay increase, with 0.7% retroactive to the first pay period in January 2004.

2005
Members received a pay adjustment of 2.5% in January 2005, increasing their salary to $162,100
from $158,100.


2006
Members received a pay adjustment of 1.9% in January 2006, increasing their salary to $165,200
from $162,100.
51
This increase became official when President Bush issued an executive order on December 22,
2005, containing his allocation of a 3.1% pay increase for GS federal employees, 2.1% for base
pay and an average of 1.0% for locality pay.
52
By setting the GS base pay component at a rate
(2.1%) greater than the scheduled 1.9% Member pay increase, Members were able to receive the
full 1.9% adjustment

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-615.pdf

THESE WERE ALL YEARS OF REPUBLICAN CONTROL OF BOTH THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE, DURING GEORGE W. BUSH'S PRESIDENCY.[/COLOR]