Washington • House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy struck a deal recently to give members of Congress a pay hike, the first in a decade.
Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland, and McCarthy, a California Republican, had pitched the plan that would tie an increase to members’ salaries to inflation, adding about $4,500 to their take-home pay next year and rising more each year. Rank-and-file members of Congress now make $174,000 a year.
But members, like Rep. Ben McAdams, a Utah Democrat who won his seat in one of the closest races in the country, pushed back.