After decades of voting for one pay raise after another and after consistent efforts to disregard the word and spirit of the 27th amendment. The Democrats of the 110th Congress have vowed to oppose future pay raises. According to the Democrats it is unconscionable to raise congressional pay again when the minimum wage remains $5.15.
Perhaps what is truly unconscionable is the existence of a federally mandated minimum wage in the first place.
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
27th Amendment
Perhaps if these politicians were as interested in following the Constitution as they were in preserving their own power and influence or perhaps if they weren’t so keen on playing games of semantics by calling a “pay raise” a “cost of living adjustment,” which by any reasonable account is still an effort to vary compensation, then perhaps they could be taken at their word.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061207/D8LS9KHO0.html
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