WE always bitch about the work that Congress does or in most cases does NOT do…..I have often wondered if we had gotten our money’s worth….my guess is NO…NO where near our money’s worth…..and thanx to Bankrupting America we have some figures on this subject…….

Last week taxpayers spent roughly $100 million on Congress.

Salaries of Members of Congress and their allowances/week:

Speaker of the House: $223,500/52 = $4,299

House and Senate Majority and Minority Leaders: ($193,400/52) x 4 = $14,877

Other Representatives and Senators: ($174,000/52) x 530 = $1,773,462

Average weekly budget for all House offices: ($1,446,009/52) x 435 = $2,096,421

Average weekly budget for all Senate offices: ($3,409,093/52) x 100 = $6,555,958

Non-salary money allocated for Congress: $4.656 billion/52 = $89,538,462

What you got

As noted above, the House the House was not in session. The chamber will be back this week. To recap, so far this year, the chamber has voted to approve only two bills that would cut spending:

H.R. 3835, To extend the pay limitation for Members of Congress and Federal employees. SAVINGS: Unknown

H.R. 1173, Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act. SAVINGS: $9 million over five years

During debate on the transportation bill, the Senate voted 40 to 58 against an amendment offered by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) to lower the FY13 discretionary budget authority cap by $11 million in order to offset the general fund transfers to the Highway Trust Fund. The chamber also rejected 26-72 an amendment offered by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) to get rid of certain energy tax subsidies in exchange for a decrease in the corporate income tax rate.

And that was last week and if they are still on schedule set up in 2010 they are off a week which means that we pay them to go home a play golf and schmooze with their owners, the high stake donors…..