Here's how much members of Congress get paid, even during a government shutdown

CNBC ^ | 1/15/19 | Kathleen Elkins

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

Here's a breakdown of the annual salary of members, officers and officials of the House. Salaries have not gone up since 2009, CRS notes.
Speaker of the House: $223,500
Majority and minority leaders: $193,400
All other representatives (including delegates and resident commissioner from Puerto Rico): $174,000
Chief administrative officer: $172,500
Clerk of the House: $172,500
Sergeant at arms: $172,500
Chaplain: $172,500
Legislative counsel: $172,500
Law revision counsel: $172,500
Parliamentarian: $172,500
Inspector general: $172,500
Director, interparliamentary affairs: $172,500
General counsel to the House: $172,500

Here's a breakdown of the annual salary of members, officers and officials of the Senate:
President pro tempore: $193,400
Majority and minority Leaders: $193,400
All other senators: $174,000
Secretary of the Senate: $172,500
Sergeant at arms and doorkeeper: $172,500
Legislative counsel: $172,500
Legal counsel: $172,500
Parliamentarian: $171,315
Chaplain: $160,787

[Libloather]

Don't bother them. They're on vacation in Puerto Rico.

[grania]

President Trump, DECLARE THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND START THE WALL. Where’s his supposed “three-dimensional chess” strategizing? It isn’t even “follow the dots” to realize that funding the wall where the emergency is greatest forces the maniacs to the table and puts them in a position of having to negotiate to have less wall instead of more!

[airborne]

They should all be asked if they will donate their pay (like President Trump) to a charity while the shutdown continue ues

[mewzilla]

Public service has come to mean that the public exists to service its servants.

[madison10]

Do not let them back in.

[hadaclueonce]

Some animals are more equal than others.

[onedoug]

And they essentially all come out millionaires.
Legalized thieves, all.

[momincombatboots]

Thanks for posting.. The chaplain makes 172Thousand dollars a year? Who is this guy? I mean, what denomination is he with? Besides the self proclaimed church of the ruling class?
I expect this from the others. They are exemptocrats.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Public servants soon become public masters.

[momincombatboots]

#RulingClassPrivilege

[mo]

could’nt give a rip, personally, about how much they’re “paid”

What We the People need to know is how a Congresscritter becomes worth $129 million dollars (Pelosi)on a career of 180-200K.

That kind of info would be worth a lot to all the rest of us of us!!

BTW -you can bet what’s going on down in PR has something to do with those kinds of “opportunities”

[NTHockey]

Replace them with elephants and donkeys (too many a$$es there already):
1. Saves a lot of money to build the wall.
2. Noise pollution is significantly reduced.
3. The mess is a lot easier to clean up.

[VastRWCon]

Each illegal alien costs nearly $70,000 during their lifetime

Build the wall now.

[Retvet]

Too much! Especially for part time work!

[I want the USA back]

Very nice, but don’t forget the perks. They have voted to give themselves special privileges that you and I don’t have.

[semimojo]

What We the People need to know is how a Congresscritter becomes worth $129 million dollars (Pelosi)on a career of 180-200K.

The fact is, a lot of them marry money, like Pelosi, or had money from a prior career.

The truth is it’s hard for someone to run and win a campaign without money and some degree of financial security.

Of course there are exceptions, like AOC, but there’s a reason so many politicians are successful business owners or lawyers.

[mo]

This is the product of 2 minute google search, actually. Evidently, even 60 minutes couldn’t let this go

In 2011, 60 Minutes aired a phase referred to as “Pelosi Insider Trading.” The episode detailed the Pelosi’s involvement in preliminary public choices whereas having inside info. In a single instance, the Pelosis profited from an IPO from Visa whereas laws on bank card corporations have been being thought-about in Congress. This was not unlawful on the time.

“… Insider trading on the stock market. If you are a member of Congress, those laws are deemed not to apply,” The Hoover Establishment’s Peter Schweizer advised Newsmax. “The fact is, if you sit on a healthcare committee and you know that Medicare, for example, is — is considering not reimbursing for a certain drug that’s market moving information. And if you can trade stock on — off of that information and do so legally, that’s a great profit making opportunity. And that sort of behavior goes on.”

The Pelosis participated in six IPOs, in accordance with 60 Minutes.

Just simply marrying a congresscritter would appear to pay off!!

[jazminerose]

Now, let’s add in the value of their gargantuan benefits.

[Vaduz]

Or in the basement counting the freezer money.