Lawmakers will not receive their first pay raise since 2009 this year, as language blocking the cost-of-living increase for members will be in the final fiscal 2024 Legislative Branch bill, that measure’s top GOP appropriator said Wednesday.
House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mark Amodei said that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as well as Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., were in agreement on removing the rider for the first time in 15 years and allowing the pay bump. However, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., blocked the effort, Amodei said.
“We had a very bipartisan effort by the speaker and the minority leader to speak on behalf of their members, and that was, the story goes, completely staked in the heart by the majority leader of the Senate,” Amodei, R-Nev., said.
