The avarage Member Of Congress Earns Roughly $174.000 a Year and " for Representatives and Senators is limited to 15% of the annual rate of basic pay for level II of the Executive Schedule (15% of $181,500, or $27,225 in 2014).
All members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are paid in full by the U.S. Treasury, which ultimately gets its money from the tax payers.
From taxes collected by the federal government.
There are 435 Representatives in the current House, as well as 100 Senators and 6 non voting members.
Wyoming has 2 Senators in the U.S. Senate and 1 Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Senators are Mike Enzi and John Barrasso. The member in the U.S. House of Representatives is Liz Cheney who was elected in 2016.
Senators and Representatives are elected by a
2 Senators and 25 Representatives
The current salary for senators is about 174,000 dollars per year. The current average income for people in the U.S. is about 51,000 dollars per year.
The actual text is... "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened." In simple terms - it means that no laws concerning the pay of senators & representatives can be enforced before the next general election.
Every state has 2 senators. Representatives are determined by population. There is no limit on representatives. The people vote.
The New Mexico Legislature is made up of the New Mexico House of Representatives and the New Mexico Senate. The New Mexico Senate consists of 42 elected Senators. The New Mexico House of Representatives consists of 70 elected Representatives. The names of current Senators and Representatives are available at the New Mexico government website.
The senators and representatives from the U.S. are from the state that they represent, it's the law!
Yes they did, which was one of the most annoying things for government workers-- they lost sixteen days of pay, while senators and representatives who had caused the shutdown continued to receive their paychecks.