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2016 Postmortem

Rowdyboy

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2. Perhaps the Speaker should check out that pesky 27th Amendment to the constitution

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2013, 04:46 PM

Jan 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. It is the most recent amendment to the United States Constitution. It was submitted to the states for ratification in 1789, but was not adopted until 1992.

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