Word: percent
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Assuming a 3 percent 1991 civil service raise, House members who now make $89,500 likely would see their pay increase to about...
However, lawmakers who currently add to their incomes with honoraria for speeches would have to give that up. Current rules allow House members to pocket honoraria totaling up to 30 percent of their salaries, while senators can keep 40 percent...
Income earned outside the House would be limited to 15 percent of salary beginning in 1991. Members could not receive directors' fees, legal fees or other income for professional services. Book royalties would remain exempt from the limits but with new restrictions...
Public criticism, some of it galvanized by broadcast talk-show hosts, helped lead to defeat of a proposed 51 percent congressional pay raise earlier this year. But there was no time this time...
...fervor may be deceiving, and official figures are telling. According to statistics from the school's Office of Career Services, about 70 percent of its students enter private firms upon graduation...