For The First Time EVER Most Congress Members Are Millionaires

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Members of Congress are getting paid more than $2,000 for every bill they pass.

The chart below — assembled by the Washington Post, based on data from the Congressional Research Service and GovTrack — reveals the remarkable extent to which lawmakers today are being paid to accomplish next to nothing.

Members of Congress, excluding leadership and the president pro tempore, earn $174,000 per year. Lawmakers in the wildly unproductive 113th Congress are being paid $4,368 per bill passed over the two-year session — or $2,184 annually.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/members-of-congress-paid-2000-per-bill

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