House Defeats Bid to Block $3,100 Pay Raise
From Times Wire Reports
The House agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year -- to $165,200 -- after defeating an effort to roll it back.
In a 263-152 vote, the House blocked a bid by Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) to force an up-or-down vote on the raise. Instead, lawmakers will automatically receive the raise -- officially a cost-of-living adjustment.
“Now is not the time for members of Congress to be voting themselves a pay raise. We need to be willing to make sacrifices,†Matheson said.
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