Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just hours before the Senate righteously denounced and rejected the pay raise (knowing full well that the House would ride to the rescue), a wilted Wright reversed field, declaring that the House would vote after all -- to reduce the pay hike, once it goes into effect, to 30%. That would still leave the lawmakers with a hefty increase, from $89,500 to $116,350, rather than to $135,000. (Since Congress received its last raise, a 16% increase in 1987, inflation has remained at an annual rate of just 4.4%.) Or as Wright and members seeking re-election next year...
...attempt to mollify the 98% of the populace that earns less than members of Congress do now, the House will also vote to ban honorariums -- fees for speaking, or just showing up, at special-interest-group functions. Wright noted that since, under current rules, members are allowed to keep up to $26,000 a year in honorariums, "they'll come out about the same in income" with the 30% raise. But few House members earn the maximum in honorariums, so most will be better off. The House bill will also cut back salary increases for Executive-department officials and judges...
...Wright's disingenuous scheme is by no means certain of approval by the Senate, where foes have abandoned hope of preventing the pay hike and will instead try to rescind it fully some weeks or months from now. The Senators' ardor, however, may subside once those fatter paychecks begin landing on their desks...
...Senate probes new allegations about John Tower's drinking and sex life that could delay his confirmation. -- Flying solo on his first diplomatic mission, Dan Quayle voices support for human rights in El Salvador. -- Feeling voters' heat, Speaker Jim Wright changes strategy on congressional pay hikes. -- Had October's missiles flown, John Kennedy would have stayed home...
...makes ten times the average annual American income.) And don't forget the perks: a limousine, a Moscow apartment, a dacha, hand-delivered groceries. Korotich also disclosed that Gorbachev donated $600,000 in foreign royalties from his book Perestroika, to the Communist Party. Are you listening, Jim Wright...