Congressional Pay Goes Up Again

During 2008, salary for members of Congress has been $169,300. On January 1, 2009, it rises to $174,000. Every time the salary goes up, filing fees also go up, in the states in which the filing fee is a percentage of the salary.


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Congressional Pay Goes Up Again — 6 Comments

  1. Can Congress really be compared to real life?
    And isn’t there an additional bit of hypocrisy that those silly bleeps get an automatic pay raise when they are wanting auto industry employees (notice I don’t say “workers”) to take a pay cut?
    Both union members and members of Congress are irresponsible, though very much responsible for the disaster that afflicts our entire economy.
    Between the two, I think Congress is more to blame, so members of Congress getting a pay raise when millions of people are out of work — more than two million since the Democrats took control of Congress, coincidentally enough — is downright criminal.

  2. Imagine getting a nice increase like that despite a 15% approval rating. Oh wait, in the private sector you probably would no longer have a job if you performed that poorly….

  3. Since I do not want to appear to be satisfied with just cracking jokes on Congress, I suggest that the third parties make a specific list of 3 representatives (in 2010) toward which all monies will be poured into campaigns to unelect them. By scattering money and time across a wide range of campaigns, the results end up the same. By using laser-like focus on a handful, it will gather the attention of our citizens when 3 to 5 of the Dems and Repub’s lose in 2010 to third party candidates.

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