The last pay raise for Congress was in 2009 bringing the minimum pay to $174,000 per year. Committee leaders earn more.
A yearly automatic pay raise was voted into law in 1989. Congress blocked the pay raise for 2010 and 2011.
Source: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/02/18/1548259/murray-requests-end-to-automatic.html
The last pay raise for members of Congress was approved in 2009, which went into effect in 2010. Since then, there have been no further pay raises for members of Congress.
Congress, or the Legislative Branch.
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Yes.
Debts
In the Articles of Confederation, the procedure by which Congress was to raise funds was by taxing the states.
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False
1992
It cannot take effect before the beginning of the next session of Congress according to the 27th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, ratified in May 1992.
Congress must write a law that will allow for them to receive a pay raise. The 27th Amendment to the US Constitution provides for this.
The 27th Amendment in the Constitution states that Congress may vote for their own pay-raise but that pay-raise will not take effect until the next term after their election.
Congress actually determines its own pay as laid out in the constitution. They get an automatic cost of living adjustment unless they vote to decline it so there is no need for them to vote to raise it very often.