The Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1992, says that whenever Congress gives itself a raise an election must intervene before it takes effect. This turned out to be a solution in search of a problem, because poor-mouthing demagogues usually keep Congress from giving itself any raises. The last one, which increased salaries to $174,000, was way back in January 2009 . Since then, inflation has whittled down congressional pay by one-third. Granted, some of these rich

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