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Congress avoids pay raise vote through questionable workaround
Original: Opinion | Lawmakers won’t vote to raise their own pay. What they did instead looks worse.
Members of Congress have declined to hold a direct vote on raising their own salaries, but instead pursued an alternative route that a Washington Post opinion column argues looks worse than an honest pay increase. The piece criticizes lawmakers for avoiding accountability on the issue of congressional compensation while still finding ways to benefit.
Why now: A prominent opinion column is drawing attention to how lawmakers handle their own pay, a perennially sensitive topic in Washington.
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- Opinion | Lawmakers won’t vote to raise their own pay. What they did instead looks worse. · The Washington Post
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