"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."
This amendment made it so any pay increase that congress decides on for themselves, only comes into affect in the next session of congress. Before this amendment, congressman were able to increase their own personal salaries immediately if so voted.
This candidate Adam Kokesh post this next video as a call to action for his fellow congressman to decrease congressional pay. While many Americans are suffering to put food on the table and pay their bills, congressman have a hefty salary that includes comprehensive health care that many of them do not wish to extend to the rest of their fellow Americans.
As tax payers, we pay congressional salaries as well as their benefits. One of these benefits happens to be comprehensive health care, something that many of these congressman do not wish to extend to us, and something which we have somehow tricked ourselves into believing we do not deserve. This next video talks about health care and public options.
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