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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 07:47 AM
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Cybercast Noise Service falsely gives Repukes credit for blocking congressional pay raise
GOP Blocks Lawmakers' Cost-of-Living Increase

(CNSNews.com) - After being pounded by Democrats last year for accepting pay increases while not boosting the minimum wage, Republican congressmen Tuesday returned the favor by preventing an annual 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) from taking effect this year. "There will be no COLA adjustment," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday after GOP members of Congress, led by House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), promised to block the annual $2,800 pay hike. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) "ran their own ads attacking members on this," Blunt explained. "Because of that, their members are going to suffer in terms of not being able to have a COLA." Full Story
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200701/POL20070130c.html
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 07:56 AM
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1. $233.33 a month for the congress critters
Vs. how much for per month for the minimum wage increase?
:nopity: :nopity: :nopity:
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