[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 24]
[House]
[Page 32030]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  STOP THE AUTOMATIC PAY RAISE FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN FISCAL YEAR 
                                2011 ACT

  (Mr. MITCHELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam Speaker, my colleague, Dr. Ron Paul, and I have 
once again introduced legislation to stop Members of Congress from 
receiving the next scheduled automatic pay raise. Earlier this year, we 
introduced legislation to block the fiscal year 2010 pay raise, and we 
were joined by a bipartisan coalition of more than 100 of our 
colleagues in the process. Thanks to their help, as well as that of our 
leadership, the fiscal year 2010 pay raise was blocked.
  With unemployment so high and so many families struggling to make 
ends meet, we believe that it would be wrong for Congress to now raise 
its own pay in fiscal year 2011. Right now, we need our focus to be on 
getting people back to work, shoring up the economy, and keeping our 
families and communities safe, not on giving ourselves a pay raise. The 
American people are not getting a raise. Neither should Congress.
  I encourage my colleagues from both sides of the aisle to do the same 
and join Dr. Ron Paul and me in stopping the next automatic pay raise 
from taking effect by supporting H.R. 4255, the Stop the Automatic Pay 
Raise for Members of Congress in Fiscal Year 2011 Act.

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