Lawmakers have gone 15 years without a pay increase, allowing federal judges and their own staff to far eclipse their $174,000 salaries. Some want that to change.

Members of Congress are slated to receive a pay raise for the first time in 15 years if the massive spending bill released by House leaders Tuesday evening passes both chambers and is signed into law.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last spring to shutter a slew of advisory committees has imperiled already enacted ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., again made headlines last week, this time by arguing that Congress is due for a pay raise. The necessary expenses of the job are, she argues, too high for ...

Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate’s version of the budget reconciliation legislation, which includes a one-year 2.5% increase for the proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee ...

Members of Congress may be getting an up to $6,600 raise this year. That's due to a provision in a must-pass funding bill ...

A House-led push to give lawmakers their first raise since the Great Recession is running into familiar fears that a pay bump is a political third rail. Lawmaker pay has been stuck at $174,000 a ...

Members of Congress get to decide each year whether to take the pay raise they have coming to them. Staffers get no such choice. A 1989 law ties staffers’ salaries to what members of Congress earn.

A plan by House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) to engineer a pay raise for members of Congress — whose salaries have been frozen at $174,000 since 2009 — has run aground, at least for now.

If you pay members of Congress or regulators way less than first-year law school graduates in large New York or D.C. law firms, you’re going to get members and regulators who take bribes….

Members of Congress are slated to receive a pay raise for the first time in 15 years if the massive spending bill released by House leaders Tuesday evening passes both chambers and is signed into law.