Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., falsely accused House Republicans of attempting to “provide themselves with a pay raise' Saturday amid negotiations on a bill to avoid a government shutdown.
, which states:"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."
Disproving DeLauro's claim, Georgia GOP Rep. Austin Scott read aloud the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The bill now heads to the Senate. If it's expedited there, Congress could just narrowly avoid seeing thousands of federal employees furloughed and nonessential government programs paused.
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