Pay Congress What It’s Worth. Nothing.

Pay Congress What It's Worth. Nothing.

House Speaker John Boehner (R, OH-8) has put the 113th United States Congress on notice: No work no pay. Pass the budget or you won’t get a paycheck.

This is the same John Boehner who was House Speaker last year, during the 112th Congress, the least productive Congress in 60 years. So does this mean we can get our money back from that Do-Nothing Congress?

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Tags: blather, Boehner, Congress, do-nothing congress, GOP, hypocrisy, John Boehner, No Budget No Pay, Republicans

This entry was posted on January 24, 2013 at 12:15 am and is filed under Congress, politics, Republicans, rhetoric. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Pay Congress What It’s Worth. Nothing.”

Mike Licht Says:
January 24, 2013 at 11:47 pm
UPDATE:

“The Best Reporting on What’s Wrong with Congress,” Pro Publica
Congress Doesn’t Need Those Paychecks « NotionsCapital Says:
January 29, 2013 at 12:34 am
[…] great fanfare, the do-nothing Congress passed the ”No Budget, No Pay” bill, threatening to withhold congressmen’s paychecks if they don’t pass a […]

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