The Obama Executive Order The House Overwhelmingly Overturned

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The Obama Executive Order The House

Overwhelmingly Overturned

Last Friday Barack Obama caused quite a stir with h is

executive order that ended the freeze on wages for

Congress and federal workers, giving them what amounted

to an $11 billion pay raise. Among those getting more green

was Vice President Joe Biden .

On Tuesday evening , the U.S. House of Representatives

approved legislation that blocked the pay raise. The Hill

reports,

The House approved legislation on Tuesday that would

block a pay increase for federal workers and members of

Congress scheduled to take place in March.

Members voted 287-129 in favor of the bill from Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.). Just

two Republicans opposed the legislation, and 55 Democrats supported it.

Republicans brought the bill up under a suspension of the rules in order to allow

for quicker consideration, although that move also required a two-thirds majority

vote.

The bill is a response to an executive order last Friday from President Obama that

would end the two-year federal worker pay freeze, and increase congressional pay

by about $1,000 for each member of the House and Senate.

GOP Eric Cantor (R-VA) tweeted:

Ed O’Keefe wrote, “Th e GOP-backed bill introduced late Monday would freeze the salaries

of lawmakers and the nation ’s 2 million federal employees for the remainder of fiscal 2013.

Currently, federal worker salaries are frozen through the end of a short-term spending

agreement that expires in March . As part of efforts to curtail the deficit, federal employees

have not seen a cost of living increase in their paychecks in more than three years.”

According to Twitchy, Rep. Darell Issa’s office (R-CA) issued a statement on the matter:

On a bi-partisan vote of 287-129 the House of Representatives approved H.R.

6726, a bill to overturn the President’s executive order that gave an across the

board pay hike to Members of Congress and federal bureaucrats. The President’s

executive order will cost taxpayers $11 billion over the next 10 years. The bill was

introduced by Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. House Oversight and Government

Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., led debate on the House Floor.

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[GinaG]

This is just a freaking mess! Just bring it on down to the people they don't mind, hell most don't even read the paper anymore! Bullsh!t!

[Cherysh]

Roflmao....Cost if living increase??? Have they even noticed the job market right now?? Cost of living is a joke. Cudos to those cashing in on hard times ......again they are so out of touch. Unbelievable!

[dontlop]

govt employees always have gotten a cost of living increase....thats why they dont care about inflation.. "printing money ".. and giving away money for free .. causes inflation..

if they did away with cost of living increases.. ..they would monitor inflation because it would affect them ..

as it is .. no matter what they do .. their pay is increased every year automatically ,, they dont care about private sector at all