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Members of Congress Due to Award Themselves $4,700 Raise in 2009
December 17, 2008Members of Congress are slated to receive a $4,700 pay raise beginning in January, increasing their annual salaries to $174,000. The increase for 535 House and Senate members would cost taxpayers more than $2.5 million. That salary alone, which excludes all other outside income and spousal wages, ranks each lawmaker in the top six percent of American households. Full release
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