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BumRushDaShow

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3. "Vote yourselves a $%@& pay raise, too, worms"

Reply to Ponietz (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 04:01 PM

13 hrs ago

Believe it or not, thanks to the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, if they did vote for a pay raise, it wouldn't go into effect until the next congressional session (with each "session" being 2 years)!

27th Amendment

Amendment XXVII

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxvii

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Total BS.....a case of do as I say not as I do....they talk a good game but it is just talk. walkingman 14 hrs ago #1

Vote yourselves a $%@& pay raise, too, worms Ponietz 13 hrs ago #2

"Vote yourselves a $%@& pay raise, too, worms" BumRushDaShow 13 hrs ago #3