Michele Bachmann Introduces Bill to Rescind Congressional Pay Raise
"We have a spending problem in our country and we should be looking for areas to cut spending," Bachmann said ... "we should not increase government spending and add to the debt burden by giving members of Congress a pay raise."
In what will more than likely be the last legislative action Michele Bachmann will make as a representative of the Stillwater, Minn. area, the Sixth District Congresswoman on Monday introduced legislation that would rescind the portion of President Barack Obama’s executive order that gives members of Congress a pay raise. “I am calling on my colleagues in the House and Senate to rescind President Obama’s executive order that gives members of Congress a pay raise,” Bachmann wrote in a statement. “This executive order was not requested by Congress and we should reject it. We have a spending problem in our country and we should be looking for areas to cut spending. At a time when families across the country are cutting back we should not …
Rosemary B
12:25 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
This is not about me. I just find it hypocritical that he uses his Executive order to raise the pay of politicians yet does nothing for the victims of a natural disaster. He should have never ordered that pay raise. It was the wrong thing to do knowing that 98% of the country was about to see the payroll tax deduction (his idea again) expire and be hit with less money in their pay checks at a … more ›