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Congressional Pay Raise

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 11, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Legislative Branch

CONGRESSIONAL PAY RAISE -- (House of Representatives - February 11, 2009)

Mr. MITCHELL. Madam Speaker, I rise today to thank Speaker Pelosi for agreeing to bloc the next scheduled congressional pay raise.

As government acts to cap executive compensation, and as millions of Americans watch their incomes shrink, a pay raise for Members of Congress would have seemed glaringly out of touch.

If we are going to talk the talk of fiscal discipline, we must also walk the walk of self-restraint. The American people are not getting a raise this year. Neither should Congress.

I also wish to thank Dr. Ron Paul and 107 of our colleagues--Republicans and Democrats--who were willing to support H.R. 156, the Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act. Without the leadership of these Members--so many of them new Members--we may not have taken this important step.

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