Congress Gives Self an 11% Raise. How are You Doing?

Ahh, to be stuck in a dead-end job like Congress where lawmakers typically experience a 90% re-election rate and then have to put in a tough 3-day work week for which they work all of 6 or 7 months a year. Uh, when they show up. Not that they have to show up that often. But for all this hard work, the Pelosi-Reid House of Thieves just gave themselves a raise and now make $174,000 a year.