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How to Pay the Piper-It's Time to Call Different Tunes for Congressional and Judicial Salaries

1 Apr 2007

The 2003 National Commission on the Public Service, chaired by Paul Volcker, called judicial salaries the “most egregious example” of failed federal compensation policies, referenced a “similar crisis” as to executives, and stated flatly that “[f]ew democracies in the world expect so much from their national legislators for so little compensation.” For 20 years, legislators …
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Authors

Michael S. Greve, Russell R. Wheeler

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United States of America