GOP Blocks Congress Members' Cost-of-Living Increase
By Randy Hall - CNSNews.com: After being pounded by Democrats last year for accepting pay increases while not boosting the minimum wage, Republican congressmen Tuesday returned the favor by preventing an annual 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) from taking effect this year." There will be no COLA adjustment," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Tuesday after GOP members of Congress, led by House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), promised to block the annual $2,800 pay hike.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) "ran their own ads attacking [Republican] members on this," Blunt explained. "Because of that, their members are going to suffer in terms of not being able to have a COLA." Blunt said that Democrats broke the agreement after last year's pay raise-related vote had already taken place. As a result, federal lawmakers' salaries will stay at $165,200 for the year instead of receiving - an increase of $2,800.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) "ran their own ads attacking [Republican] members on this," Blunt explained. "Because of that, their members are going to suffer in terms of not being able to have a COLA." Blunt said that Democrats broke the agreement after last year's pay raise-related vote had already taken place. As a result, federal lawmakers' salaries will stay at $165,200 for the year instead of receiving - an increase of $2,800.
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Poor wealthy lawmakers didn't get another $2,800. To Bad!
Check out "The 50 Richest Members of Congress (Roll Call)" at http://blog.kasusa.org/interest/2006/9/11/the-50-richest-members-of-congress-roll-call.html
And the rich just keep getting richer. For the 50 richest Members of Congress, 2005 was great for the bottom line, according to Roll Call's annual survey of lawmakers' personal wealth.
All told, 20 lawmakers who made the Roll Call list in both 2005 and 2006 increased their estimated worth, and even the House Members and Senators at the bottom of this year's list boasted personal fortunes in excess of $4.67 million, according to financial-disclosure reports. That is up nearly 12 percent from the cutoff for the 2005 list of $4.17 million.
1. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) $750 million
2. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) $243 million
3. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) $200 million
4. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) $172 million
5. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)$141 million
6. Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) $59.8 million
7. Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) $56 million
8. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
$42.6 million
9. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) $40 million
10. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) $29 million
11. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) $20 million
12. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) $19 million
13. Rep. John Campbell (R-CA) $17 million
14. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) $14.66 million
15. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) $14 million
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50. Rep. Sue Kelly (R-NY) $4.67 million
{Check them all out -- haven't even gotten "way down" the list to those making small dollars like over $500,000 a year.)
DO THESE PEOPEL NEED A RAISE!
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