Voted 6 Times To Raise His Pay

[ItsjustMe]

[occupant]

1. PIG

Disgusting fuckin PIG ! Stroke out ol man !

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Nope. Not a stroke. Something horrible, painful, disfiguring and degradingly awful.

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Well, not to be mean.....

but he ALREADY looks disfigured......

(yeah, I was kidding about the 'not-to-be-mean part).

[drmeow]

16. Plus a stroke on top of it nt

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Portrait of a Self-serving Bastard. n/t

[secondwind]

4. 😡😡😡

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Voted to make me pay

property taxes twice

[dutch777]

6. Should have used that in his last election bid. Should use similar for other Rs. I am sure it

applies to many beside Mitch.

[marble falls]

7. You got to understand, this was a tough call for the Senator. They only called for a vote on ...

... minimum wage 15 times. If they'd only had called it just one more time.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. People in Congress don't vote to raise their pay, it's automatic ...

Just sayin'

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. The last time they got a raise was 2009.

Nothing automatic happening for a decade.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Okay, well before that, for many years, it was automatic.

TTBOMK it's been quite a long time since Congress could vote themselves pay raises. I want to say ... the 1990's?

But I could be wrong.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. There was a ten year period where the raises were automatic.

And no raises since 2009. This is quite interesting, and includes a chart for Congressional salaries since 1789. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-1011.pdf

[Paper Roses]

9. I knew who this was berfore I scrolled to the picture.

I bet he is part of a big R club!

[3catwoman3]

10. The party of the working...

...class, my ass.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. The last time he could have voted to raise his own salary

would have been 2009, or 2008. No raise for Congressional salaries since 2009.

[Sanity Claws]

15. McConnell became a Senator in 1985 (elected in 1984)

Last edited Sun Mar 7, 2021, 11:52 PM - Edit history (1)

Since then his salary has increased from $75,100 to $174,400. There were about 17 salary increases in that time frame. See https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senate_salaries.htm
Many of the salary increases may have been due to an automatic increase based on a statute but:
1. did he support the statute that provided for these incremental automatic increases? If he did, then I think that the statement in the OP is just a bit off, not false entirely.
2. his salary is more than double what it was when he started in 1985. More exactly it is 232% of what it was when he started.
Despite the increases he has enjoyed, he refused to increase the minimum wage.

The OP needs fine tuning to be completely accurate, but there is reason to be indignant.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

18. Very nicely done, agree 100% (nt)

[UTUSN]

19. Not to mention shoe-horning his wife into Fed jobs with attached influence peddling.