Taxpayer groups are urging future speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to lead by example and cut House salaries as a symbolic gesture of cutting spending.
To groups expecting Republicans who ran on the smaller-government-by-cutting-spending program it's a kind of "put up or shut up" prospect.
"And cutting pay would be one of the best symbols, because unlike virtually anything else the federal government does, when Congress spends money on its own salaries and benefits, people can make a direct comparison to their own situation," Sepp said.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, released more than 200...
The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638bn defence bill that would block President...
As the Senate Armed Services Committee meets Wednesday to take up its version of the Defense...
The U.S. Senate Thursday rejected an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would have required...
