Lawmakers accept pay raise while refusing to vote for it.
"House lawmakers accepted a $3,300 raise that will increase
their annual salaries to $168,500. Lawmakers easily squelched squelch
v. squelched, squelch·ing, squelch·es
v.tr.
1. To crush by or as if by trampling; squash.
2. a bid by
Rep. James Matheson For the American politician, see Jim Matheson.
Sir James Nicolas Sutherland Matheson, 1st Baronet (17 October 1796 – 31 December 1878) born in Shiness, Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland, was the son of a Scottish trader in India. (D-Utah) to vote on the cost-of-living raise."
Noting that, in 1989, Congress arranged automatic raises instead of
having to vote for them, the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency.
Associated Press (AP)
Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported the new pay boost
for our "representatives."
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