MURPHY: Want a more diverse Congress? Bite the bullet and raise the pay
By Patricia Murphy, CQ-Roll Call (TNS) If there’s one thing less popular than Congress right now, it’s giving Congress a pay raise. Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer and Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy found that out the hard way last week when, despite a bipartisan agreement to quietly give a 2.6% cost-of-living adjustment to House members, the entire agreement blew up when House freshmen from both parties