Congressional Action: Did Hell Freeze Over?

by YankeeJim | February 1, 2012 at 05:19 pm
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Hell frozen over

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Even with global warming

A couple of years late, but salaries of federal workers are frozen.

Until the debt is clear and GDP is pumping robustly, that’s the way it should remain.

House votes to freeze congressional, federal worker pay


House lawmakers voted Wednesday night to freeze their pay and the salaries of congressional staffers and civilian federal employees, scoring a symbolic victory for congressional Republicans who have targeted government compensation as an example of excessive federal spending.

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