When did Congress vote 52 to 45 to give themselves

justgamma

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Fri Mar-20-09 08:56 PM
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When did Congress vote 52 to 45 to give themselves

a raise? Trying to answer a LTTE about earmarks and this was mentioned. I can't seem to find when this was voted in.
Thanks.

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Aloha Spirit

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Fri Mar-20-09 09:23 PM
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1. I think this is what you're looking for, March 10th

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00095

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doc03

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Fri Mar-20-09 10:49 PM
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2. Shouldn't the Republicans have filibustered that one? n/t

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karynnj

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Sat Mar-21-09 10:29 AM
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3. They couldn't - the amendment was to stop the pay increases

that were coming because of a formula passed long ago so there would not be these annual votes. Filibustering can only be used to stop a bill from passing - here they wanted to add this amendment. The Democrats had enough votes to "table" or kill it.

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