Duckworth returns pay to reflect sequestration cuts
Still waiting for a rethug to hop on this bandwagon... 
Duckworth returns pay to reflect sequestration cuts
By Kerry Lester
A suburban Democratic congresswoman said Wednesday she wrote a $1,218 check to the U.S. Treasury Department to refund a portion of her pay to reflect federal sequestration cuts.
"I'm sending off my check to the treasury today," Tammy Duckworth, of Hoffman Estates, told attendees at a morning round-table on Social Security and Medicare in Elk Grove Village.
In late February, as the spending cuts — forced after Congress failed to reach a plan to deal with the country's deficit — were looming, Duckworth pledged to take an 8.4 percent pay cut until a solution is reached.
That 8.4 percent is the average amount that most "discretionary programs" — including education, housing and urban development and defense — face in cuts, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Duckworth, who is believed to be the first member of Congress to offer up such a pledge, said the idea came to her as she took part in an education round-table at Harper College in Palatine.
In an interview Wednesday, she said the decision wasn't backed by Democratic House leaders.
"I spoke with leadership, they said, 'Well, we generally don't think that's a good idea, people work hard and it becomes a gimmick,'" Duckworth said. "I said it's important to people in my district. And then they said, 'Well, you go ahead and do it.'"
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Thanks for posting about Tammy, b'sis, who is a REAL CHAMP!!!
That's a quality that all Congress critters should emulate.
I am a huge fanboy!
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