Results: Pay Raise Proposed for Congress

Congressional salaries have been frozen at about $174,000 since 2009, when Democrats controlled Congress and decided to suspend automatic cost-of-living increases while heading into the 2010 election year. Are you an American and do you think Congress deserves a pay raise to increase their salaries from $174,000 each year?

House Democrats say they are moving forward with fiscal 2020 funding bills that won't block those pay increases, which are guaranteed by a 1989 federal ethics law. Do you believe Congressional pay raises should be automatic every year?

"There is strong bipartisan support for these modest inflation adjustments," said Evan Hollander, a spokesperson for the House Appropriations Committee, noting that the panel does not have to take action to allow the automatic increases and will simply be forgoing language that would block the raises. Do you wish you had a job that allowed you to vote for your own pay raises - and they would be guaranteed each year?

Under current law, lawmakers would receive a 2.6 percent pay adjustment, or $4,500, in January. But boosting congressional pay is always politically difficult. "I think the American people would think that Congress ought to earn it first," Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) told reporters this week. If you are an American, do you believe Congress should earn any pay raises before they receive them?

Do you wish there was a way for citizens to stop the "automatic" pay increases for their congress members / representatives if they felt their member of Congress was not adequately doing his or her job?