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everyone is tightening their belt:State,cities and towns but not congress?
everyone is tightening their belt:State,cities and towns but not congress?
I think we need less congress not more.
maybe this could be the next theme for the teabag party/rally.
legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent
this year, boosting Capitol Hill’s annual budget to $4.7 billion.
are we really paying $8,785,046.72 per year per congressman /senator?
I dont' believe these numbers, this is absurd, and getting even more absurd.
$4.7 billion budget for 100 senators and 435 house members?
and none of the detaied info is available online.
see more info on thisthis budget at
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27732.html
I think we need less congress not more.
maybe this could be the next theme for the teabag party/rally.
legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent
this year, boosting Capitol Hill’s annual budget to $4.7 billion.
are we really paying $8,785,046.72 per year per congressman /senator?
I dont' believe these numbers, this is absurd, and getting even more absurd.
$4.7 billion budget for 100 senators and 435 house members?
and none of the detaied info is available online.
see more info on thisthis budget at
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27732.html
are we really paying $8,785,046.72 per congressman /senator? per yr
are we really paying $8,785,046.72 per congressman /senator? per yr
I dont' believe these numbers, this is absurd, and getting even more absurd.
$4.7 billion budget for 100 senators and 435 house members?
$4,700,000,000 / 535 = $8,785,046.72 for each
Congress is on the verge of giving itself a bump in its annual budget even as local governments, families and businesses across the country are tightening their belts in the worst recession in decades.
Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday,
spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent
this year, boosting Capitol Hill’s annual budget to $4.7 billion.
The measure includes a hodgepodge of new funding for lawmakers: a $500,000 pilot program for senators to send out postcards about their town hall meetings, $30,000 for receptions for foreign dignitaries and $4 million for consultants—
with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) getting up to nine each and Senate President
Pro Tempore Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) getting up to three more.
There’s $15.8 million for salaries for the Senate Appropriations Committee — plus an extra $950,000 for the committee’s administrative expenses.
Funding for House office buildings will jump a staggering 128 percent, to $84 million. Some of that money will go to replace a roof at the Rayburn House Office Building, and an additional $50 million is being allocated to renovate the Cannon House Office Building.
The Architect of the Capitol will see a 17.8 percent hike to deal with infrastructure repairs, and the Government Printing Office’s revolving fund will increase a whopping 155 percent, to $12.7 million, to deal with technology upgrades and repairs, according to the conference report.
The bill which President Barack Obama could sign as soon as Wednesday, funds operations and staff salaries in the personal offices of the 535 members of Congress,
dozens of legislative committees in the House and Senate, the GPO,
the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the Government Accountability Office and the Capitol Police.
Supporters of the bill argue that they were relatively frugal this year. Last year, Congress increased its funding 10.9 percent over the fiscal 2008 level and the $4.7 it’s appropriating to itself this year is less than the $5 billion Obama set forth in his budget earlier this year.
The Appropriations Committee disputes that funding increased by 5.8 percent, arguing that the real number is 3.5 percent — or $157 million — because of emergency spending and the $787 billion economic stimulus that added to Congress’s budget. But critics call the move a budget gimmick that does not represent a true apples-to-apples comparison of the amount of money Congress approved in last year’s spending bills versus the fiscal 2010 bills.
By MANU RAJU
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27732.html
I dont' believe these numbers, this is absurd, and getting even more absurd.
$4.7 billion budget for 100 senators and 435 house members?
$4,700,000,000 / 535 = $8,785,046.72 for each
Congress is on the verge of giving itself a bump in its annual budget even as local governments, families and businesses across the country are tightening their belts in the worst recession in decades.
Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday,
spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent
this year, boosting Capitol Hill’s annual budget to $4.7 billion.
The measure includes a hodgepodge of new funding for lawmakers: a $500,000 pilot program for senators to send out postcards about their town hall meetings, $30,000 for receptions for foreign dignitaries and $4 million for consultants—
with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) getting up to nine each and Senate President
Pro Tempore Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) getting up to three more.
There’s $15.8 million for salaries for the Senate Appropriations Committee — plus an extra $950,000 for the committee’s administrative expenses.
Funding for House office buildings will jump a staggering 128 percent, to $84 million. Some of that money will go to replace a roof at the Rayburn House Office Building, and an additional $50 million is being allocated to renovate the Cannon House Office Building.
The Architect of the Capitol will see a 17.8 percent hike to deal with infrastructure repairs, and the Government Printing Office’s revolving fund will increase a whopping 155 percent, to $12.7 million, to deal with technology upgrades and repairs, according to the conference report.
The bill which President Barack Obama could sign as soon as Wednesday, funds operations and staff salaries in the personal offices of the 535 members of Congress,
dozens of legislative committees in the House and Senate, the GPO,
the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the Government Accountability Office and the Capitol Police.
Supporters of the bill argue that they were relatively frugal this year. Last year, Congress increased its funding 10.9 percent over the fiscal 2008 level and the $4.7 it’s appropriating to itself this year is less than the $5 billion Obama set forth in his budget earlier this year.
The Appropriations Committee disputes that funding increased by 5.8 percent, arguing that the real number is 3.5 percent — or $157 million — because of emergency spending and the $787 billion economic stimulus that added to Congress’s budget. But critics call the move a budget gimmick that does not represent a true apples-to-apples comparison of the amount of money Congress approved in last year’s spending bills versus the fiscal 2010 bills.
By MANU RAJU
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27732.html
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