Congress May Soon Freeze Salaries

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Mon, 01/26/2009 - 8:19am

President Barack Obama's decision to freeze top White House staff salaries may force members of Congress to do something they never want to do -- block their own automatic pay increase. But what Obama could do by executive order, Congress would have to accomplish by a vote.

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