It is such insanity. Maybe we need to move congress to Montana, or Kentucky or any state that the cost of living is less. Iowa or Nebraska so they could be in the middle of the country to lower the cost of travel to home states. What are we thinking for cripes sakes. It is time for a change!

Hello!!! These are the payroll numbers for staff, not the legislators' salaries. Breathe for cripe's sake! Say each had10 people on staff, that's about20 k per quarter per person. Divide that by 3 and get a little over 6k per month or about 70k per staffer annually. In DC that is chump party.

Ah, these are quarterly salaries... so it is even more obscene than you think!

Rep Brown-Waite's average yearly salary including bonus comes to around $70K average using these figures, yes? That isn't anything special if you consider the cost to live in the DC area. Rep Kosmas has an average yearly salary including bonus of around $55K, meaning that even with the bonus, on the average no one is living extravagantly at all. To me, the data would be more powerful if it showed individual bonus extremes rather than the averages across all staff. As a person living in the DC area, I am not at all impressed with these salaries.

This is obscene!! When are we going to stand up and end this nonsense! Enough is enough. The biggest "entitlement" program we have is our congress. Ever since 1989 when congress voted itself automatic pay raises, their salaries have nearly doubled. Mind you, more than half of the members of congress are already multi-millionaires and yet they receive salaries anywhere from 174k to 223k, not to mention the staff budgets for each and the pensions and other benefits. How the hell they can have the nerve to call themselves "public servants" is a joke! We can solve most of our budget problems by reforming this corrupt body alone. I dont care if you are a R or a D, its time for our "public servants" to put there money where there mouth is. How dare they ask taxpayers to make cuts and strip seniors and others of benefits without doing there fair share is appauling. Cut there pay by 25%, this alone would save in excess of 15 billion dollars and ALL would still be making in excess of 125K per year. We also need to srtip the pensions and lifetime pay to those multi millionaire "public servants" who do not need it. Then they can wrap themselves in the flag and talk about how they care so much for america and the american people. The next thing we need to do is reform the outrageous amounts spent on elections. This is at the core of the corruption and influence that is destroying our democracy.And now with change in the Supreme Court ruling that will only get worse. The solution: Every candidate who runs for national office should be required to contribute $0.25 of every dollar rasied to a fund that pays down the national debt. Given the obsurd amount of money spent in these campaigns, we should have our debt problem handled in no time. Also, as an american, no matter which candidates win, ALL the american people now benefit from the process and hopefuly in some small way, we will get more people in the process who truly care about ALL amerricans and not just a particular party or idealogy. Why is it we only co

crooks who answer to no one, no accountablity, no shame!!!!!!

Holy Wisconsin! Legislators really know how to help themselves - too bad they don't help the people whose money they've taken and who could use it so much more. The French Revolutionists and Egyptians know a thing or two more than we do!