{"id":860,"date":"2003-10-24T14:51:37","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T21:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/wheres-my-pay-raise\/"},"modified":"2003-10-24T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2003-10-24T21:51:37","slug":"wheres-my-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/wheres-my-pay-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s MY pay raise?"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABCNEWS.com : Senate Approves Pay Increase for Itself<\/a><\/p>\n

”At a time when our country is facing record annual deficits, this automatic stealth pay raise system is absolutely wrong,” said [Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis]. He has a policy of returning to the Treasury any pay he receives above his salary at the beginning of his six-year term.<\/p>\n

With the raise, lawmakers will have received five<\/i> straight pay increases totaling $21,000<\/i><\/b>, he said. …<\/p>\n

”I think that our representatives of government deserve a pay raise consistent with the work that we’ve produced,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.<\/p>\n

”This is not a pay raise. This is an increase that’s required by law,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. <\/p>\n

Stevens’ remark may win the prize for disingenuous crap. Alaskans: boot Stevens! mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Senators vote to raise their pay by $3,400<\/a><\/p>\n

”How can Congress give itself a $3,400 pay raise while nearly 9 million people are unemployed, and 2 million have been out of work for more than half a year<\/b>?” Feingold asked. <\/p>\n

Senators vote to increase their pay by $3,400 Jan. 1<\/a><\/p>\n

”In this time of out-of-control federal deficits<\/b>, it is essential to put the interests of taxpayers ahead of our self-interest<\/b>,” said Sen. John McCain, AZ-R, who is running for re-election next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABCNEWS.com : Senate Approves Pay Increase for Itself ”At a time when our country is facing record annual deficits, this automatic stealth pay raise system is absolutely wrong,” said [Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis]. He has a policy of returning to the Treasury any pay he receives above his salary at the beginning of his six-year … Continue reading Where’s MY pay raise?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}