Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate, meanwhile, prepared last night to debate a joint resolution killing the big pay raise, and a companion measure to restrict speaking fees and other honoraria received by its members...
House members' public positions, like those of the Senate, have been overwhelmingly against the proposed 51 percent pay increase, which must be disapproved by both chambers before February 8 or it will automatically take effect...
Wright released partial results of a personal questionnaire, showing 57 percent of House members opposing a pay raise vote before the deadline and 54 percent favoring instead a vote to reduce the raise to 30 percent...
...pay raise he was proposing was "a decent raise but not an exorbitant raise," Wright said, compared with the $45,500 increase proposed by former President Ronald Reagan and endorsed by President Bush...
Wright said it was his intention that all top federal officials, including federal judges, would receive the same increase. Under his strategy, federal judges might still win the full 51 percent pay increase, since under the Constitution those new salaries cannot be reduced once enacted...