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Cabal
10-07-2013, 10:19 AM
CNN keeps count: More members decide to donate their shutdown paychecks (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/04/cnn-keeps-count-more-members-decide-to-donate-their-shutdown-paychecks/?hpt=po_c2)


CNN reached out to all 533 current members of Congress about their plans.

As of Friday at 2:00 p.m ET., the tally showed 43 senators are donating to charity or back to the Treasury Department, while 15 are not accepting a paycheck and four are undecided.

Seven senators say they plan to keep their salary. Those senators are: Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma; Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut; Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Tom Harkin, D-Iowa; Roy Blunt, R-Missouri; Patty Murray, D-Washington.

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In the House, 52 representatives say they're donating to charity or the Treasury, while 81 are not accepting a paycheck and three are undecided.

Nine House members, however, say they're keeping their salary: Mike Thompson, D-California; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida; Rep. Danny Davis, D-Illinois; Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Indiana; Rep. William 'Lacy' Clay, Jr., D-Missouri; Rep. Howard Coble, R-North Carolina; Rep. Susan Brooks, R-North Carolina; Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-North Carolina; James Clyburn, D-South Carolina.

Senate Spreadsheet (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/10/politics/shutdown-congress-paychecks/index.html)

House Spreadsheet (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/10/politics/shutdown-congress-paychecks/house.html)

better-dead-than-fed
10-07-2013, 10:33 AM
CNN keeps count: More members decide to donate their shutdown paychecks (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/04/cnn-keeps-count-more-members-decide-to-donate-their-shutdown-paychecks/?hpt=po_c2)

How many are donating their own money to cover this:



The Republican-controlled House has passed the “Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act” to provide “for compensation of federal employees furloughed due to any lapse in appropriations that begins on or about October 1, 2013, for the period of such lapse in appropriations.” The vote was 417-0. This means that every Republican in the House that voted (13 Republicans did not vote), voted for the bill.http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/republicans-are-evil-even-the-conservative-ones/

Cabal
10-07-2013, 10:57 AM
Senate Spreadsheet (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/10/politics/shutdown-congress-paychecks/index.html)

House Spreadsheet (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/10/politics/shutdown-congress-paychecks/house.html)