{"id":33299,"date":"2013-01-03T05:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T10:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=33299"},"modified":"2013-01-03T05:12:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T10:12:59","slug":"latta-seeks-congressional-pay-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/01\/03\/latta-seeks-congressional-pay-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta seeks congressional pay freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Information submitted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) issued the following statement today calling on President Obama to freeze the salaries of Members of Congress and White House staff:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our nation continues to struggle through this economic downturn and hardworking families are making their own budget cuts, Members of Congress should not receive an automatic pay increase. While our country is faced with a crippling national debt and annual trillion dollar deficits, President Obama\u2019s attempt to increase federal salaries by .5% rather than implement a pay freeze is irresponsible and shows a lack of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During both the 111th and 112th Congress, Latta introduced legislation to eliminate an automatic pay adjustment for Members of Congress and he will re-introduce similar legislation for the 113th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/BILLS-111hr581ih\/pdf\/BILLS-111hr581ih.pdf\">here<\/a> to view H.R. 581, the bill introduced by Latta in the 111th Congress, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/BILLS-112hr431ih\/pdf\/BILLS-112hr431ih.pdf\">here<\/a> to view H.R. 431, which was introduced during the 112th Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information submitted WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) issued the following statement today calling on President Obama to freeze the salaries of Members of Congress and White House staff: \u201cAs our nation continues to struggle through this economic downturn and hardworking families are making their own budget cuts, Members of Congress should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:38:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}