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Senators and House representatives typically make $174,000 a year, although congressional leaders make more. For example, the majority party leader in the Senate collects $193,400 a year and the speaker of the House nets $223,500. (They also get other forms of compensation, like a pension if they’ve served at least five years.)
With food assistance to 1.4 million Michiganders being cut, the Free Press asked the state's members of Congress to talk: Here's what they had to say.
AG Mayes has officially filed a lawsuit against the U.S. House of Representatives seeking to ensure Representative-elect Grijalva's swearing in.
Most Pentagon personnel will need approval from the legislative affairs office before talking to members of Congress or state legislators, according to a memo.
The Trump administration has declined to provide members of Congress unedited video of military strikes against suspected drug running boats in the Caribbean.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, an 88-year-old Democrat congresswoman representing Washington D.C., was scammed out of $4,400 by a fake cleaning crew and was described by police as having “early signs of dementia.
Attorneys for former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith rebutted claims by Republican lawmakers that the investigators in the January 6 election subversion case had “wiretapped” GOP members of Congress.
Even in times like these, you can still find quiet bipartisan bonds at the Capitol if you know where to look, Bradford Fitch writes.
For the second time in a week, members of the San Diego Democratic congressional delegation on Monday tried to conduct an oversight inspection of an immigration detention facility inside the Edward J. Schwartz federal building in downtown San Diego, but were denied access.