Average Senate Salary: $174,000 80% of said: $139,000
Salary of Average American 2012: $ 44,321
Average annual Social Security income: $15,964
The poverty line for a family of two in the 48 contiguous states: $ 15,730
8. The US Congress receives annual cost of living raises automatically, unless they vote otherwise. Congress is unable pass a cost of living raise for the 3.6 million minimum wage workers
9. The US Congress appropriated $1.6 billion to build 38 - C27J cargo planes. Upon taking delivery, the first 21 were sent directly to the bone yard. Four more aircraft were to be built by Alenia Aermacchi in Italy.
10. The US Congress appropriated $435 million for new Abrams tanks, but the Army doesn't want them. It already has more than 6,000 tanks, including 2,000 in bone yards.
11. The Keystone XL pipeline isn't about energy security, it is about energy export. H.R. 4349 was introduced to repeal the 40 year ban on US oil exports.
12. In 2008, John McCain was the Republican candidate for the Presidency. His platform called for repealing the ban on deep water oil drilling. Freezing Federal spending, building nuclear power plants, making the Bush tax cuts permanent and sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. As President, his Democrat rival has accomplished every one of John McCain's campaign promises, only he sent 60,000 troops and contractors to Afghanistan.
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