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Leadership and other positions. Additional pay schedule for the Senate and House positions: SCHEDULE 6—VICE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, per Executive order 14113, effective for 2024. [3] Position. Salary. Vice President. $284,600. Senators and House Representatives.
The No Budget, No Pay Act was proposed in 2012 and again in 2013 to prevent lawmakers from being paid during a government shutdown. The bill received limited bipartisan support, but concerns were raised that it violated the twenty-seventh amendment saying that Congress may not "vary" the compensation of its members until the next election.
The proposal for a salary increase was fueled by what was considered low pay for members in government, while the salary for the president was the same as it had been for George Washington. The bill subsequently included a 50 percent salary increase for the president and for members of Congress, retroactive to the beginning of their term, which ...
President Biden on Wednesday announced plans for a 4.6 percent average pay raise for civilian federal employees in 2023. In a letter announcing the plans to Congress, the president noted ...
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who will retire from the House at the end of the year, called for pay raises for members of Congress and their staff while reflecting on his nearly two decades of ...
Since 2009, the salaries per annum of members of the United States Congress have been as follows: [6] Position. Salary. Speaker of the House of Representatives. $223,500. Majority leader and minority leader of the House of Representatives. $193,400. President pro tempore of the Senate. $193,400.
The political scientist Morris P. Fiorina, in his book Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment, found that the number of congressional staff more than doubled between 1960 and 1974. The increase was mostly in district or state offices; the percentage of congressional staff who worked in a district office went from 14% in 1960 to 34% ...
The House passed a defense policy bill Thursday that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, overcoming objections from some conservatives concerned the measure did ...