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Leadership and other positions. Additional pay schedule for the Senate and House positions: SCHEDULE 6—VICE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, per Executive order 14113, effective for 2024. [3] Position. Salary. Vice President. $284,600. Senators and House Representatives.
Congressional pension is a pension made available to members of the United States Congress. As of 2019, members who participated in the congressional pension system are vested after five years of service. A pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service ...
Since 2009, the salaries per annum of members of the United States Congress have been as follows: [6] Position. Salary. Speaker of the House of Representatives. $223,500. Majority leader and minority leader of the House of Representatives. $193,400. President pro tempore of the Senate. $193,400.
The Constitution calls for members of Congress to set their own pay, and the current wages of $174,000 a year were established by an automatic 2.8 percent raise in January of 2009 as outlined in ...
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States. [1][2] The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills; those that are also passed by the Senate are ...
Congressional leaders are paid $183,500 per year. The Speaker of the House of Representatives earns $212,100 per annum. The salary of the President pro tempore for 2006 is $183,500, equal to that of the majority and minority leader of the House and Senate. [15] Privileges include having an office and paid staff. [16]
t. e. In the United States, term limits restrict the number of terms of office an officeholder may serve. At the federal level, the president of the United States can serve a maximum of two four-year terms, limited by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The 107th Congress (2001–2003) was the most recent one that contained all of the current top 7 longest serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Leahy, Thurmond, Kennedy, Grassley, and Hatch). The 99th Congress (1985–1987) and the 100th Congress (1987–1989) were the periods in which most people from this list were serving together (all ...