Re: REF: law(s) re congressional salaries

[Dan Robinson <dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net>]

Joyce, for some reason my reply to you bounced.  You're not imagining
things.  Search on the 27th Amendment, passed by the 38th state in
1992.  I only found one citation, in  People-Weekly. v. 37 June 1
1992 p. 72 , "The man who would not quit".

Dan Robinson
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H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com
dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net



On 18 Aug 99 at 11:42, Joyce Conklin wrote:

> In the back of my overloaded memory, I thought that if Congress voted
> themselves a salary increase, that it could not take effect until AFTER
> the next general election. (Rationale -- if the public didn't like the
> pay raise they could vote out the person who voted for it -- doesn't do a
> lot about not having the pay raise take effect, tho!)
>
> Now for my question: I can't find anything that confirms my memory --
> I've tried Google and Infind search engines using ["congressional
> salaries" + law] -- also looked at LOC using the same search terms. Even
> called the congressman's office and they didn't know (ooops!)
>
> So... is there a different place I should look? Are there different
> search terms I should use?
>
>
>
> Joyce Conklin       jconkli@smcoe.k12.ca.us

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