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“No budget, no pay” plan would pinch senators who aren’t millionaires
But for a small group of senators whose net worth is measured in thousands instead of millions, the passage of “No Budget, No Pay” would put their very livelihoods at risk.
“We’re not all millionaires,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) told The Hill. “When I splurge, it’s on a Ravens t-shirt.”
“As much as I love my job and my constituents, I have bills to pay,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
“As a non-millionaire senator, I am certainly in a different spot that someone who is independently wealthy,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said.
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Congressional Office.
Its a public service, not a windfall.
BobMbx on January 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM
Crocodile tears here.
I wonder how they’ll respond when the sequester hits, and thousands, if not millions, of people don’t get paid.
BobMbx on January 25, 2013 at 5:04 PM
How about No budget = jail time.
Flange on January 25, 2013 at 5:07 PM
WELL bo flippen who cares? You were elected to do what you said you would do and you haven’t! Think about the rest of the US who are paying this gosh beyond horrible debt you little darling do not want to deal with! I AM sick your whin you pass laws that exempt you and your family, but the rest of us get the daily BOHICA!
Sucks doesn’t it?
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letget on January 25, 2013 at 5:08 PM
BTW, all you who are bent out of shape about this, GET WITH dingy ding dong harry, the one Who hasn’t allowed a budet for FOUR years to come before his slime senate!
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letget on January 25, 2013 at 5:14 PM
LOL. Anything that upsets and financially imperils über-lib “Princess Lisa” is a good thing – the nasty old skank has never worked a day in her life.
Pork-Chop on January 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM
Then do your f’ing job.
besser tot als rot on January 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM
TOUGH. SH!T.
MelonCollie on January 25, 2013 at 5:35 PM
Seems to me that over the past few years that the Senate members would qualify for unemployment ….
Want to get paid? Do what the rest of us working stiffs do…we do our job.
ProfShadow on January 25, 2013 at 5:36 PM
No job performance…no pay. Simple as that.
James on January 25, 2013 at 5:45 PM
Yeah, and I question her “love” for her constituents
Ditkaca on January 25, 2013 at 5:47 PM
Feel free to resign.
Or, you know, pass a budget. If the job is too freaking hard for you morons, that’s okay. We just need to know that.
TexasDan on January 25, 2013 at 5:54 PM
A risk I’m willing to take, Mikulski and Stabenow.
I had to dip $1200 into my “emergency fund” in December for unplanned vehicle maintenance. Surely you have something set aside for such contingencies? No? Gosh ~too bad~.
Jeddite on January 25, 2013 at 6:00 PM
So? They shouldn’t be making 6 figures in the first place, i’m not even convinced politicians should be paid at all.
clearbluesky on January 25, 2013 at 6:14 PM
I hear the sound of the world’s smallest violin. Go cry to Harry.
RadClown on January 25, 2013 at 6:16 PM
If I don’t do my job I don’t get paid. Why should Senators be any different? They’re our servants, not our rulers.
single stack on January 25, 2013 at 6:21 PM
Make ‘em present a budget, then hand them all IOUs. If they object say, “You get nothing. I get that for free” or “What difference at this point does it make?”
They owe us.
Christien on January 25, 2013 at 6:35 PM
Right, because only millionaires have enough money to build an emergency savings account. These D’s, and of course I include Murkowski, try to talk as if they’re common folk and end up broadcasting their elitism because they expect their salaries to be guaranteed. How many of you have indefinite, guaranteed salaries? I sure don’t.
Transpo on January 25, 2013 at 6:56 PM