I agree with Owen76. I am not alarmed by the salaries of congress I do however fell they should stop rising.
A true catch-22 IMHO. If you reduce salaries, you increase temptation to generate 'income' via other means, i.e. influence peddling to the highest bidder. But by the same token I feel that congress is over-paid for the amount of service they provide to the American PEOPLE.
-allenb1963. I am more concerned with the neglect the Nation's school system is recieving. The school system raises the people who will take care of me when I am old an enfeebled. Congress salaries should stay the same (or conceivable lower) but teachers should recieve signficantly better money. I am not a teacher but I feel the system needs work -but to justify the costs perhaps school should be in session longer. After all if you look at what a teacher is paid divided by the number of days it pretty high value. Perhaps I'm a cynic cause I don't see any real chance of it changing anytime soon.

Cheers,

-D