{"id":21369,"date":"2010-12-01T20:07:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21369"},"modified":"2010-12-01T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:11:52","slug":"deficit-commission-recommends-pay-freeze-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21369","title":{"rendered":"Deficit Commission recommends pay freeze for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President&#8217;s own Deficit Commission stepped away from their draft proposal last month which recommended a pay freeze for the military and they added a proposal to freeze Congressional pay according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/commission-recommends-pay-freeze-for-congress-not-troops-1.127171\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUnlike most Americans, members of Congress benefit from an automatic salary increase every single year \u2013 deserved or not,\u201d the report says. \u201cBefore Congress can ask the American people to sacrifice, it should lead by example. The Commission recommends an immediate three-year salary freeze for all members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation comes as outgoing House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, has called for a pay freeze for some troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the commission reads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21343\">This Ain&#8217;t Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeffrey Schogol for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President&#8217;s own Deficit Commission stepped away from their draft proposal last month which recommended a &hellip; <a title=\"Deficit Commission recommends pay freeze for Congress\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21369\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deficit Commission recommends pay freeze for Congress<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,89,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}