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Along with senior Government officials and judges, House members will receive a 7.9% salary increase in 1990 and a 25% hike in 1991. Tacked onto the raise was a ban on outside speaking fees or honorariums, which enable House members to boost their salaries by as much as $26,850...
Lawmakers who retire after 1993 will also be forbidden to transfer campaign contributions into personal funds; such transfers can total hundreds of thousands of dollars. Congressmen will not be allowed to accept gifts worth more than $200, and where some members now spend several weeks or more on expenses-paid...
As a substitute, Mitchell offered a 9.9% cost of living raise for Senators on Jan. 1. That will put Senate salaries at $98,400 next year, temporarily greater than those in the House. In exchange, the limit on honorariums was trimmed to $26,568 from $35,800, so Senators' potential...
In the meantime, the CfA study will go on, and other mapping efforts are in the works. "Big as it is," Geller explains, "our survey area compared with the visible universe is like Rhode Island compared with the surface of the earth." The bubbles and walls could be isolated phenomena...
Nonetheless, Administration officials confide that so far as they are aware, Bush is doing only tactical planning, concentrating on getting through the summit without a major substantive mistake or public relations flop. The President and his briefers seem to have invested far more time in considering how to counter a...