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Many members of Congress continue to advocate for a salary raise as a simple, but effective solution. Notably, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for this reform in 2021, [ 5 ] and salary raises have been a part of Rep. Ro Khanna's plan for anti-corruption congressional reform.
In December 2010, President Obama issued executive order 13561 [3] carrying out a two-year federal employee pay freeze. [4] Two years later, on December 27, 2012, he issued a new order, Executive Order #13635, which would end the pay freeze and give civilian federal employees a 0.5% raise in 2013. [2]
On February 4, 2013, President Obama signed into law the "No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013", which suspended the U.S. debt ceiling through May 18, 2013. The bill was passed in the Senate one week previously by a vote of 64–34, with all "no" votes from Republican senators, [ 13 ] who were critical of the lack of spending cuts that accompanied an ...
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 ...
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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 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.
The continuing resolution would have provided lawmakers with a 3.8 percent raise.