Congress underpaid?
Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Florida congressman , has declared that the members of Congress are deserving of a pay raise. He isn’t cutting it with his $174,000 annual salary, he said recently in a dramatic plea on the House floor.
Hastings has always had his eye on extra cash. Some 20 years ago, he was a federal judge who got caught with his hand in the till attempting to squeeze out money from litigants in exchange for a favorable decision.
He was impeached and removed from the bench by the same House of Congress in which he now sits.
William Juneau, Parkland
This story was originally published May 24, 2015 at 1:30 PM with the headline "Congress underpaid?."