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Members of Congress may be getting an up to $6,600 raise this year. That's due to a provision in a must-pass funding bill that's set to get a vote this week. Rank-and-file lawmakers have been ...
The Government Ethics Reform Act of 1989 provides for an automatic increase in salary each year as a cost of living adjustment that reflects the employment cost index. [2] Since 2010 Congress has annually voted not to accept the increase, keeping it at the same nominal amount since 2009.
The Constitution calls for members of Congress to set their own pay, and the current wages of $174,000 a year were established by an automatic 2.8 percent raise in January of 2009 as outlined in ...
The funding comes from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. [266] [267] According to a Biden administration statement, in the first year of implementation, around $2 billion was allocated to protect and restore land and marine ecosystems, including National Parks and the National Wildlife Refuge System. [268]
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022, which included allocating billions of dollars towards investments related to renewable energy sources. But the future of such policies remains ...
The No Budget, No Pay Act was proposed in 2012 and again in 2013 to prevent lawmakers from being paid during a government shutdown. The bill received limited bipartisan support, but concerns were raised that it violated the twenty-seventh amendment saying that Congress may not "vary" the compensation of its members until the next election.
With a vote of 220 to 207, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday. Here's what's in the bill
The National Defense Authorization Act is an annual bill proposed in the United States Congress that redefines the United States military budget for the following fiscal year. [2] [3] Each chamber of Congress introduced a version of the NDAA: H.R. 2670 in the House and S. 2226 in the Senate.