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Byrd's family will receive remainder of his salary
The must-pass spending bill pending in the Senate includes a little-noticed provision that would pay the family of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd for the salary he would have commanded in the next fiscal year.
The Senate handbook says that upon the death of a senator who had been serving in office, “in the next appropriations bill, an item will be inserted for a gratuity to be paid to the widow(er) or other next- of-kin, in the amount of one-year’s compensation.”
As a result, the bill calls for “equal shares” of the late senator’s $193,400 salary to be split between Byrd’s seven children and grandchildren.
The practice has been long followed by both parties and in both chambers, including in 2007 when the widows of the late Wyoming GOP Sen. Craig Thomas and the late Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-Ohio) each received $165,200 for the salary that the two men would have received.
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| September 29, 2010, 7:19pm |
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WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND WE ELECT THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope they enjoy the lodge too..... |
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The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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| September 29, 2010, 7:21pm |
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And what "they" don't get - we're pissed at the Republicans AS WELL as the Democrats for pulling crap like this. It's not one party or another - it's BOTH - and it spreads like a friggin virus through every govt office |
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WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND WE ELECT THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope they enjoy the lodge too.....
...he must have never " disrespected the lodge." |
| "While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat." |
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...he must have never "disrespected the lodge."
it's just not 'polite' to talk about it.......  |
| ...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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| September 29, 2010, 8:34pm |
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche “How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
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