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iluvtennis

(19,862 posts) Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:19 AM Aug 2018

$36.5 Mil of taxpayer dollars to cover US congress vacation

Mat Molina @realMatMolina 6h6 hours ago

U.S. Congress:

• Average annual salary: $178k ($3,420 weekly)

• Average weeks in recess: 20

• $3,420 x 20weeks = $68,400 x 535 members of Congress = $36,549,000 of taxpayers’ dollars for Congress to VACATION

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$36.5 Mil of taxpayer dollars to cover US congress vacation (Original Post) iluvtennis Aug 2018 OP

They could have had one-third of Trump's military parade for that money! gratuitous Aug 2018 #1

Now that you put it in that context...paying 20 days of vacay for Congress is nothing. iluvtennis Aug 2018 #2

gratuitous

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1. They could have had one-third of Trump's military parade for that money!

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:29 AM

Aug 2018

Wait until Donald finds out about this.

iluvtennis

(19,862 posts)

2. Now that you put it in that context...paying 20 days of vacay for Congress is nothing.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 01:20 AM

Aug 2018

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