The House on Friday essentially killed Republican efforts to freeze the salaries of federal workers next fiscal year, voting 227 to 183 to table a proposal introduced by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
The Minnesota Republican introduced the measure after it won the week's Republican YouCut contest that is identifying potential government spending cuts popular with GOP voters.
Friday's vote means federal workers survived two Republican attempts to cut their pay this week. Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday introduced amendments to the war supplemental that would have trimmed 2011 federal pay increases and instructed federal agencies to sell excess equipment and land. The amendments failed to pass on Thursday.
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I'm glad Kratovil voted against these raises, so we got that going for us. Nice reporting Joe.
Our congressional reps (Senators AND Representatives) remind me of the old Roman proletariat...."we know whats good for you, don't think for a moment that we will live and work under the same rules we impose upon you--- we are much too important". Health care? Pay structures? Civil rights laws? Morality?? Congress, each year, accomplishes less and less but gets paid more and more...try THAT in the private sector, boys....its disingenuous at best for ANY senator or rep to grandstand about pay restrictions!! They vote themselves pay raises they don't deserve, inflate their already bloated staffs (and give them unreal salaries, too), and THEN try to gat some good press by "holding down costs"....LOL! And we keep electing these sharks....
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