House Democrats Move to Increase Lawmaker Pay After Long Freeze
- Salary raise of 2.6% would follow a decade of stagnation
- Legislation probably would be killed by Republican-held Senate
The Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
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House Democrats are moving forward with a plan to give members of Congress their first pay increase in a decade.
The party has scheduled a vote on a $1 trillion spending package next week that includes the annual bill funding congressional operations. The measure leaves out language in effect since 2010 that would prevent lawmakers from receiving an annual cost-of-living increase to the $174,000 base salary for rank-and-file lawmakers.