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Lawmakers avoid voting on their own pay raises
Original: Opinion | Lawmakers won’t vote to raise their own pay. What they did instead looks worse.
A Washington Post opinion piece argues that members of Congress, unwilling to vote openly for a pay raise for themselves, have instead used an alternative route that critics say is worse. The column contends this indirect approach lets lawmakers secure compensation increases while dodging political accountability, and it calls out the lack of transparency in how congressional pay and benefits are handled.
Why now: The op-ed is drawing attention to congressional pay practices at a time when lawmaker accountability is under scrutiny.
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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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