Should congress get an allowance?

[welndmn]

Should congress get an allowance?

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:04 PM
Subject: Fw: Tell House members if they should get an allowance


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> > Some of you might want to vote on this....................
> >
> > --------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: voting@vote.com
> > To:
> > Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:27:39 +1900
> > Subject: Tell House members if they should get an allowance
> > Message-ID: <20010306022739.C76433A93@cambridge1-smrly1.gtei.net>
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> > Dear Vote.com voter,
> >
> > A bipartisan group of House members is pushing for an allowance of $165
> > per day to help cover the costs of living in Washington. This tax-free
> > stipend would total nearly $25,000 a year for each member.
> >
> > Now you can log on to http://www.vote.com to tell representatives in
> > Congress if they should get this per diem. Do they need it to help
cover
> > the costs of maintaining homes in their districts and in Washington,
or
> > should they make do with their $145,100 annual salaries?
> >
> > When you vote on this issue, we'll e-mail your opinion to Congress.
> > Please make your vote count, and ask your friends and family to vote
too!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Your friends at Vote.com
> > http://www.vote.com

Results 5 AM 3/06

Yes (1,271)
(10%)

No (11,808)
(90%)


ALL VOTERS


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WELNDMN!WELNDMN!WELNDMNWELNDMN!
ahh screw it call me Mark
No matter what you do or say someone will take it too seriously

[Lance]

Hell no!

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Lance Clifford
1970 FJ Foe-dee
Silly Toyota.... Birfields are for kids!

[JeepinIan]

HELL NO, they should just have to pony up and live like the real workers in this country do. If ya got to have a place in one city to work and another to live, then just pay 2 motgages. Crap, at $145,000 a year, plus they have some other bennies, I could afford 2 houses.
Here we are trying to decrease taxes, according to Bush, and they want to spend more.


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Ian, all the way from sunny South Florida where women are in bikinis all year long!

[This message has been edited by JeepinIan (edited 03-07-2001).]

[Slick]

<FONT COLOR="Red">For what????? I don't get any "allowance"... And I don't get to vote for my own pay raise either.</FONT c>

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<FONT COLOR="Red">Slick</FONT c> - 83' bobbed & lockt posuer-mall rig & held together w/numerous <FONT COLOR="Red">clamps..</FONT c>