Congressional staff bonuses: "from under a $100 per staffer up to $16,000 and $17,000 a piece."

[KansDem]

Congress pays $6.1 million in bonuses as it debates spending cuts

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A few members were unsure if they had given bonuses or not. When asked about seeming bonus payments he reported for January through March, Tea Party Caucus member Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, told CNN, "I don't recall. I'd have to go back. It's been a long time ago." He referred CNN to his spokeswoman, who did not return repeated phone calls and e-mails.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, similarly told CNN she didn't know if she'd given bonuses. She defended congressional staff in general.

"I think that for the most part, people work for very low wages, they work long hours and I think out of my staff I get very good service for the salaries they get," Foxx said.

CNN

These members of Congress "don't know" if they've given bonuses, yet they want to cut SS and Medicare? :crazy:

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Yeah, Representative Foxx, like you said:

"I think that for the most part, people work for very low wages, they work long hours..."

SO DO TEACHERS, FIREFIGHTERS, NURSES, PRISON GUARDS, ROAD CREWS, ETC. And what do we get? We can forfeit 10% of our pay to greedy corporations.

What the heck is a bonus??

[rfranklin]

2. It's like the graduate degrees that teachers earn...

It's an investment in future salary increases. And as we all know, the increases for former staffers can be handsome indeed.