Via the Enlightened Redneck, Congress is getting a raise. In fact, they have set it up to give themselves a raise automatically, no matter what their work produces:

A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay. Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries . . . .

Be sure to note how the pay increase kicks in right after the election. For you to do something about it, you have to wait 23 months until the next election. Have no doubt, they’re clever, your representatives in Congress.

There was a bill introduced to prevent the automatic pay increase from taking effect this year, but guess what?: It didn’t go anywhere.

Here’s the current vote on H.R. 5087, to prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2009. Click to vote, comment, learn more, and edit the wiki article about the bill.