Few issues make voters angrier than seeing taxpayer dollars used for salary increases for politicians. After a recent congressional rules change on reimbursement policies prompted social media complaints, we took a closer look.
at which former Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Miss., said he left Congress because he couldn’t financially afford continuing to serve., the modernization committee sought to rectify this problem by supporting"alignment" of Congress’ reimbursement policies with those in the private sector.from its bipartisan membership, to amend the reimbursement rules in the members’ Congressional Handbook.— again, unanimously and on a bipartisan basis — on the final wording changes in the handbook.
"The effort to make sure that Members are reimbursed for housing expenses has been bipartisan in nature from the very beginning,"After the policy change became widely known, lawmakers from both partiesRep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla, said,"Congress was out of line with traditional workplace reimbursement structures."
"Lots of jobs offer reimbursement for expenses up to a certain maximum, without employees actually reaching that maximum in their expenses," Green said.27th Amendment The House’s rule change is not accurately described as a pay raise. Rather, for the first time, lawmakers can be reimbursed for living expenses in Washington, D.C., the same type of reimbursements that private-sector employers regularly give workers.
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