* Members are free to turn down pay increase and some choose to do so
* In a complex system of calculations, administered by the Office of Personnel Management, congressional pay rates also affect the salaries for federal judges and other senior government executives.
* During the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin considered proposing that elected government officials not be paid for their service. Other Founding Fathers, however, decided otherwise
* From 1789 to 1855, members of Congress received only a per diem (daily payment) of $6.00 while in session, except for a period from December 1815 to March 1817, when they received $1,500 a year. Members began receiving an annual salary in 1855, when they were paid $3,000 per year.
they get paid way too much money and can screw the people over that they are suppose to represent. They give themselves raises while everyday working people either lose their jobs or have to take a pay cut. They get perks that all the tax payers pay for like cars, lunches, tickets, great retirement and that is just to name a few. They cut programs and steal from tax payers.
Some benefits of being a congressman are:
free parking
free postage
and paid flights for visiting home state
franking privilage ex post facto
he can not go to jale
A pork barrel
* One benefit is being paid 105,000 dollars.
Yes.
The benefits of being a Hilton Honors member are the reservations, top suites, and all kinds of special treatment but the catch is that membership will cost you.
constituent service or casework
No, not a voting member. However if when a law is being passed and there is a tie he is the tie breaking vote.
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I believer no because being a member of congress seems like a full time job
Pork-barrel Projects
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is not a member of the European Union. It may want to join to avail of the benefits of being a member like trade and funding for development.
Because he's the member of the congress
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