At over three times the median U.S. household income, this Democratic congressman thinks he and his fellow representatives deserve a raise.
Rep. Jim Moran (D., Va.) told CQ Roll Call members of Congress are “underpaid” and he plans to introduce an amendment to correct the injustice.“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,” he said.
While that claim is not technically true (the European Union is the largest economic entity in the world), let’s assume for a moment that being on the U.S. “board of directors” should warrant a raise for Congress.
Congressional salaries have been frozen since 2010, but regular members still pull in $174,000 per year – more than triple the 2013 median U.S. household income of $52,000. Leadership positions are compensated higher.
Additionally, the “board of directors” has not exactly been delivering for their “shareholders.” Unemployment remains a staggering 6.7 percent, and the labor participation rate hovers at historical lows.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
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NO
He needs to stop entertaining and he wouldn’t need a raise. He get paid more than he is worth. A lot of people earn less than $2,000.00(that is high) a month.
Tremendously over paid!
Overpaid, overpaid for what. They don’t do anything. They go off on taxpayers money to “The Bahamas” for a conference on world hunger. OR a hunting trip during a anti gun rights symposium. Wake up America. You have to know that most, not all, but most politicians are crooks. Hell, most of them are filthy rich.They don’t tell us how they got all there cash. You wonder why. I KNOW. WE need to clean house, in fact both houses. We need to elect some average, hard working Americans. Put them in Congress and watch them show us how to get it done. I know I tired of the way things are. Americans got to be tired. Wake Up America.
Dah
In the private sector, you have to EARN a raise. These clods just vote themselves one. TERM LIMITS is the only way the general public will ever get rid of some of these moss backs and elect people who really want to do service for the country for a time, then return to the private sector, as was originally intended. When term limits were imposed on the President, it should have included every other elected official so that he or she would have to go back and face the people who voted them in. MIGHT get something done if they did not have a lifetime to sit in Congress. Eight years is long enough to make or break a good reputation, but you have the career people who generally just draw a paycheck and make speeches…and ask for more money to continue to do the same.
no thay should not get a raise
they should have their pay taken back for what they and Obama have done to this country
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Hell no!