Hurry UP!!! ..........................Change is Coming!!!

Fearful that "change" is coming, congress is working hard in this lame duck session to get as much as they can. Congress is working in a raise in the auto bail out package for federal judges.

The raise — an annual cost of living adjustment, or COLA — would bring U.S. District court judges up to par with members of Congress, who will receive an almost $5,000 boost on Jan. 1. District judges and lawmakers now earn $169,300 a year but are expected to be awarded a 2.8 percent raise next year, said Dick Carelli, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., insisted that the judicial pay raise go into the automaker loan measure, which is the only item of business on Congress' lame-duck agenda.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_co/judicial_pay_raise


Lead of course by Harry Reid. I am NOT SAYING federal judges don't deserve a raise. I am simply showing how its more of the same in congress. Call some legislation an auto bailout, education, national security etc. bill, and pile on unrelated pork and spending.

TAHL