Taxpayers for Common Sense Action
Stop Congressional Payraise.
Congress has the ability to automatically give themselves payraises. This year, Congress wanted to enact a $4,900 payraise even though the economy was in a recession, hundreds of thousands of workers had been laid off, the on-budget surpluses had been spent, and billions of dollars had been spent in response to September 11th.
A congressional payraise was not a critical national priority. Sen. Feingold ( offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2002 Defense Appropriations to prohibit the automatic congressional payraise from going into effect in January 2002.
The Senate rejected the Feingold amendment.