• rainynight65@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Tell them they’re not getting paid until they have elected a speaker. Watch how quickly they’ll sort themselves out.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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      Not very quickly. How many of them are multimillionaires? Go ahead, guess. Here’s a hint.

      More than half of those in Congress are millionaires, data from lawmakers’ most recent personal financial disclosures shows. The median net worth of members of Congress who filed disclosures last year is just over $1 million. 

      They won’t care if they miss a year’s worth of paychecks if they can hurt poor people by doing so.

    • ATDA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think they make most of their money trading with their classified information.

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      1 year ago

      Does Congress still get paid during a government shutdown that they themselves cause? I wouldn’t be surprised, they seem to make a lot of rules that make themselves the exemption.

      • SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Yes. It partially makes sense because you could screw the new congresspeople who aren’t corrupt with hidden income sources into not being able to afford their living situation, which could become a really bad point of leverage for awful people. I believe their staff goes without pay though.