No Budget? No Pay!
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Email your lawmakers and urge them to sign-on in support of the No Budget, No Pay Act.
Congress has only passed a budget and all spending bills necessary to fund the government four times in the past 60 years. Congress has the lowest public approval rating in history. It all comes down to a simple fact: Congress is not doing its job – and the most basic job Congress has is deciding how much money the government takes in and how much it spends.
If Congress can't make spending and budget decisions on time, then lawmakers should not get paid.
On February 4, 2013, President Obama signed a debt ceiling extension bill that included a modified No Budget, No Pay provision that would withhold member pay in escrow if their respective chambers fail to pass a budget by April 15. No Labels supported this legislation as a critical step towards more accountable government. However, we will continue to push for implementation of our stronger No Budget, No Pay proposal, which would require timely passage of both a budget and annual spending bills and would also not allow lost member pay to be recovered once it was withheld.
Urge your members of Congress to support H.R. 310 and S. 124, which require that Congress pass not only a budget but all spending bills too, and if they don't, they wouldn't get paid -- with no backpay. And it would be permanent.
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If I don't do my job, I won't have a job, let alone get paid.
They get away with getting paid and not doing their jobs.
They are sticking their middle finger in the face of the American people.
Wake up American people, timeout for sleeping and letting them get away with this.
They get away with getting paid and not doing their jobs.
They are sticking their middle finger in the face of the American people.
Wake up American people, timeout for sleeping and letting them get away with this.
Until we pass a balanced budget then no pay for the president, the vice president, the cabinet members, all czars and congress. We need term limits, a maximum of two terms for each office. Leadership positions in congress should be held for a maximum of four years. Therefore no one will own the leadership positions. The United States Attorney General should be an elected office every two years. This office should not be a political position. It needs to be above reproach. Replace the current tax system with the Fair Tax plan. . Reduce our contribution to the UN by 50%. . Cut Federal Travel Budget BY 75%; Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 75%; No funding for federal office space acquisition; Return 50% of all federal lands and assets back to the states the land is in; Eliminate all earmarks. Eliminate all Czar positions. All cabinet positions should need to be reconfirmed by congress every two years.
We work hard 5 hours of week and you can't even manage 1 full day? Your work ethic is pitiful.
STOP SPENDING or you get no pay. Our debt is insane and Congress keeps spending more. Obamacare will break the bank for good. We haven not had a budget for 4 years. Just do it and stop the spending. We don't need to raise our credit ceiling we're maxed out. Fix it please.
If yo don't put up a balanced budget, you don't deserve any salary.
Enough is enough!
We owe it to our children and grandchildren to stop the bleeding now and give them a fighting chance at the American Dream.
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