U.S. Rep. Alcee L. Hastings thinks it’s time taxpayers show him the money.
The Florida Democrat said Monday at a Rules Committee meeting that it is high time members of Congress received a pay raise due to, among other things, to the high cost of living in the D.C. area.
“Now in order for us to get a raise, we have to go to the public and prove that we deserve it,” he said. “Well, I think we do.”
Hastings described how he moved to an elite section of D.C. called Senate Square and complained about how he can could no longer afford the rent.
Hastings said he didn’t add the raise to the 2016 Legislative Branch appropriations bill the committee was considering because he knew it wouldn’t get through, but said, “The least we could have done for ourselves is to give us a tax credit.”
He said Congress is heading toward elitism.
“I predict for you 20 years out that the only people that will be able to serve in this institution will be people who are wealthy,” Hastings said.
Hastings said Congress members are going to realize “that on the salary that they make, they’re going to be unable to send their children to college.”
After the session, Hastings doubled down on those remarks when pressed by reporters.
“I’m strongly in favor of a pay raise for members commensurate with what everyone else receives as federal employees,” he said.
“We’re entering our seventh year without a pay raise,” Hastings added. “Now, I think we’ve proven to the American public that we are responsible.”
Really?
This is the same man that the Wall Street Journal said in 2009 was spending nearly $25,000 to lease a car?.
The same man Judicial Watch reported in 2012 was the congressman most engaged in nepotism, paying his girlfriend a reported salary of $622,500 from 2007-2010?
Yeah, that’s proving responsibility.
The Twitterverse wasn’t buying a bit of it.
Rep Alcee Hastings (D-FL) says members of Congress need a pay raise (despite $174,000 annual salary) https://t.co/wnEysEfIwl
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends how do you deserve a raise? what have you done to decrease debt, create jobs, get people off tax payer money????
— jason reiber (@JasonReiber) May 19, 2015
@1rightwife If I had the productivity and efficiency of Congress at my job, I would have been fired along time ago http://t.co/OlGMIRg4d0
— Scottie Nell Hughes (@scottienhughes) May 19, 2015
Rep. Hastings would like pay raise for Congress, pay raises are based on performance reviews. We should get a refund not pay more. #MMWCP
— T M Freeman (@1rightwife) May 19, 2015
Rep. Alcee Hastings is upset that he and his friends in congress haven’t had a raise in 7 years…this is not satire..he’s really upset
— Winkles (@Bullwinkle97) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends Maybe the members of Congress should quit and go find better paying JOBS
— Dirty White Boy (@WhiteMichaelD) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends give them the same they give military
— Alison Donnelly (@SmallprintTexas) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends They want more money they can work a second job like the rest of us!
— FaithBased (@FaithBased92) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends Democrats answer to everything, throw more money at it
— Ron Atkins (@RonAtkins) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends Why doesn’t he ask to give our service men & women rises. What a selfish SOB.
— SUSAN DUTCHER (@SCRUB58) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends Absolutely Not. Learn how to live within your budget. Perhaps a local 2nd job is in order?
— David Gibson (@WhtKnight4377) May 19, 2015
@foxandfriends one simple word for this nonsense….NO!
— Cali-Hillbilly (@Cali_Hillbilly) May 19, 2015
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