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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they make way to much already
If you lived off SS Disability you would not be cutting our benefits. You are overpaid, and you are not doing a good job with USA’s budget.
Overpaid is more like it. Better still give them the same raise that those of us on SS got…pennies
No
Hell No! Their ALL OVER PAID and NEED TERM LIMITS. No retirement after their term, just go back to work.
NO, the troops and hard-working AMERICANS are
They are so overpaid it should be illegal.
I always understood you got paid for what you do. Therefore congress should ger less tan minimum wage
no
That’s their “Base Salary”, it doesn’t include all the perks they get, all the Staff they have to do their shopping for them, Etc. The bottom line here is that their not even doing the job their payed to do. If they were part of a Corporation they’d have been fired within the first month! We the voters need to get these leaches out of Washington, and replace them with people who will get things done.