{"id":1692,"date":"2005-06-29T18:06:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T22:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/another_adjustm\/"},"modified":"2005-06-29T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T22:06:31","slug":"another_adjustm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/another_adjustm\/","title":{"rendered":"Another &#8220;Adjustment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"House Agrees to $3,100 Pay Raise for 2006\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/28\/AR2005062801144.html\">An automatic raise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House on Tuesday agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year _ to $165,200 _ after defeating an effort to roll it back.<br \/>\nIn a 263-152 vote, the House blocked a bid by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, to force an up-or-down vote on the pay raise. Instead, lawmakers will automatically receive the raise _ officially a cost of living adjustment _ as provided for in a 1989 law that barred them from pocketing big speaking fees in exchange for an annual COLA.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not a pay raise,&#8221; said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. &#8220;It&#8217;s an adjustment so that they&#8217;re not losing their purchasing power.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you think that after years of receiving nothing, America&#8217;s lowest wage earners deserve an &#8220;adjustment&#8221; of their own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/another_adjustm\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Another &#8220;Adjustment&#8221;\"><p>An automatic raise: The House on Tuesday agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year _ to $165,200 _ after defeating an effort to roll it back. In a 263-152 vote, the House blocked a bid by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, to force an up-or-down vote on the pay raise. Instead, lawmakers will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}