Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Congress voted yesterday to take away its 51 percent pay raise and rushed the legislation to President Bush, who signed the measure a few hours before a midnight deadline...
Indeed, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said in a statement. "I deeply regret the congressional action, which has prevented the federal judges in this country from receiving a well-deserved pay raise....We will not be able to attract and retain the kind of judges we need...unless we pay our judges fairly and equitably...
Jeffords said he cast his vote yesterday to make clear his view that judges are badly in need of a pay raise and because, unlike last week's measure, this one did not curtail lawmakers' rights to make speeches for fees...
...This pay raise is dead," said Rep. Thomas Tauke (R-Iowa), an architect of the opposition strategy...
...vote and Wright's subsequent announcement came after Majority Leader Thomas Foley (D-Wash.), presiding over yesterday's session, refused to recognize a pay-raise opponent who wanted to introduce a resolution calling for a vote on the hike...