“Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution,” the Florida Democrat said at a Rules Committee meeting, referring to the average member’s $174,000 annual salary. “We aren’t being paid properly,” he later added.
“It’s kind of a sad state of affairs that we are entering the seventh year of Congress not receiving a raise,” Hastings said.
“In order for us to get a raise, we have to go to the public and prove that we deserve it. Well, I think we do.”
Congress’ current approval rating is 19 percent.
This would be bad enough on its own, but Alcee Hastings is one of the few members of Congress to have been impeached and removed from office for bribery and perjury. That was back when he was a judge and made him one of only eight Federal officials to be impeached. More
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