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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by dllthomas on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:05PM (#24874793)
Congress gets to decide salary for the next congress.
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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by colejohnson66 on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:44PM (#24876527)
Limiting it to the next congress doesn’t help when they’re career politicians and just get re-elected.
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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by dllthomas on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:00AM (#24876838)
I mean... it helps, because they can't simply pocket the treasury outright. There is presumably some limit where the voters wouldn't stand for it.

The fact that incumbents are generally reelected does certainly weaken the mechanism.

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