Their own pay. In the midst of all the brouhaha over the Iraqi troop pullout vote, Congress allowed their annual cost-of-living increase of 3 percent to go through unimpeded. This is an automatic raise, unless they vote to stop it. Neither side took the opportunity.
You'd think there would be good bipartisan reasons to attempt it--the minority party has whined about the out of control spending, so making an issue of the pay raise could have painted the majority right as spending hypocrites. On the flip side, the right could have garnered a huge PR win by advocating to chop the increase to show they want spending back under control. Guess it's more fun to yell and catcall about the war.
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