Editor, Daily News:
The way Congress has it set up, members get automatic raises each year unless they vote not to accept those raises. It saves them the embarrassment of going on record and voting themselves more money.
The exception is that they may vote on whether or not to accept raises in any particular year.
This year, Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, made a bid to get a yes or no vote on the increase, but the House, obviously buoyed by a 23 percent approval rating, voted 249-167 to defeat that measure.
These guys just don't get it. And yet, some people will still try to return them to office when they next come up for election.
If we do, we're as dumb as them.
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