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public. Not so much the raise itself, but the impression that it was being orchestrated in an underhanded fashion — that the House leadership had engineered a scheme whereby if a vote were not taken the raise would automatically take effect.
The solution, ultimately, is for Congress to establish a regular series of more modest increases — tied, perhaps, to inflation or the increase in the cost of living index. Members argue that a vote in favor would be used by their opponents in future elections. We think that their constituents would support them if their overall record justified it. One vote on a pay raise would not spell defeat.
They should still be required to vote on any proposal for a raise, but we think that the American public would find a yearly increase of several percent much more palatable than a once-in-a-while whopper of 50 percent.
That’s the way most of the public gets its salaries increased — and we think that method ought to be good enough for our elected representatives as well.
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