What expenses are associated with US congressional service?  Who pays for the office staff, etc.?
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Tax payers pay it all. Count on it. The US Congress spends in total about $ 535 million Per year. Congress has never worked less in the History of our Country since 1948. They now work only two days per week. Each member in Congress is paid base pay of $165,000 or more. Add expenses and you come up with about $1 million each.
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The actual entity would be the Treasury. Congress sets his salary. The source of the money is taxes of various sorts (income, excise, gift, estate, etc.) as well as customs duties.
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It's the House of Representative that determine spending.  Because the house does the taxing it has the obligation to spend the money and no I have no Idea how much was spent.  Try the Department of the Interior (it's responsible for the BIA) http://www.doi.gov/
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>ways and means:\n\nMethods and resources available to accomplish an end, especially to meet expenses.\nMethods and means, especially legislation, for raising revenue needed by a government.\n\n>Ways and Means Committee: \n\nA permanent committee of the House of Representatives, which makes recommendations to the House on all bills for raising revenue. The committee is the principal source of legislation concerning issues such as taxation, customs duties, and international trade agreements.
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The annual salary of a Representative is $165,200. The Speaker of the House and the Majority and Minority Leaders earn higher salaries. By comparison, Senators earn the same as Representatives, cabinet members $180,100, and the President of the United States $400,000.
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Congressional Pensions \n\n \nCongress is sometimes considered suspect when it takes time to establish its own wages and pensions. \n\nHowever, pensions for Representatives and Senators have never reached quite the sums suggested in some accounts. In fact, pensions for elected officials who retire after 1997 were reduced by almost half in 1994. \n\nDuring the 1990s, Congress dramatically lowered the pension for former elected officials. Before these reforms were established, the average pension was about $75,000 per year, with an average contribution to that fund of about $100,000. Currently, that number is approximately $15,000 per year for officials who retire after 1998, with an average contribution of about $23,000. \n\nContrary to rumors, members of Congress pay an equal amount of taxes to Social Security that everyone else does. The only tax break offered is a $3,000 deduction for housing expenses incurred while staying in Washington, DC. \n\n\n Congress' cushy pension system\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nPosted: July 11, 2001\n1:00 a.m. Eastern\n\n\n© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com \n\n\nWASHINGTON – Unlike most American workers, who lost big money in their 401(k) retirement accounts last year, members of Congress can't lose in their gold-plated retirement plans. \n\nCongress' bloated pensions are by far the single biggest perk offered lawmakers, a huge incentive for incumbents to cling to office and spend more of your money. \n\nCushy doesn't begin to describe their retirement plans. They are more like small lotteries. \n\nAs with private plans, politicians' retirement benefits rise with length of service. But congressional pensions provide double to triple the benefits offered by most private employers, studies show. \n\nIn fact, they are so generous that some former lawmakers' annual pensions are twice as high as their pre-retirement congressional salary. Among the major provisions: \n\n\nPayout is based on a special formula. Most companies base pensions on the average of an employee's five highest-paid years, plus 1.5 percent. But lawmakers get the average of their highest three years' pay – inflating the total by giving more weight to peak years – plus as much as 2.5 percent. \n\nCongressional pension payments rise each year under a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. Virtually no companies offer pensions that match a rise in the Consumer Price Index. \n\nBoth lawmakers and staffers can retire with a full, guaranteed pension at age 50 after 20 years of service, whereas most American workers must wait until they are 65. \nHold on for 20 years and you can retire with a full pension as early as age 50 and live the rest of your life in relative luxury – at taxpayers' expense. And that does not include your tax-deferred savings plan, which taxpayers match nearly dollar-for-dollar, or Social Security benefits (like all workers, members of Congress pay into the system on the first $80,400 of their gross income). \n\nMany members who have recently left Congress will draw more than $1 million over their lifetimes. Some are expected to haul in more than $2 million, projects the National Taxpayers Union. \n\nVoters may have put some old tax-and-spend bulls out to pasture in recent years. But that doesn't mean they stopped paying for their long and dubious service. \n\nTake former House Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash. He's collecting $123,804 a year, plus COLAs, for his 32 years of government service. \n\nThen there's retired crook Dan Rostenkowski. After 36 years in the House, benefits for the former Ways and Means Committee chairman start at $96,462 a year, even though he was convicted of embezzling his office stamp allowance. (Only treason can strip federal lawmakers of their pension.) \n\nFor the roughly 85 percent of Americans working in the private sector, retirement won't be so golden. \n\nFewer than four out of 10 wor
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I would guess wages and all the fringes - group health and dental, along with payroll and unemployment taxes.\n\nWages typically are one of the largest expenses of most companies.
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In 2001 the presidential salary increased to $400,000 plus $50,000 for expenses. Because the president’s official duties incur far more expenses than the expense budget can cover, agencies of the federal government often assume responsibility for presidential events.
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what's the money being deducted for
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Do you charge them by the hour to use your office?? If not then you should. If they are going to do it, at least make some money off of it. LOL
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The current salary for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $158,100 per year.
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The annual salary of each senator, as of 2005, is $162,100; the President pro tempore and party leaders receive larger amounts.\n\nThe annual salary of each Representative is $165,100. The Speaker of the House and the Majority and Minority Leaders earn higher salaries.\n\nCabinet members earn $180,100 per year, and the President earns $400,000 per year.
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It was increased to $400,000 in 2001. The Vice-President receives $202,900. Former Presidents receive $151,000 plus $150,000 per year to maintain an office. Former first ladies receive $20,000 a year. Before that, the US President was paid $200,000 a year resulting in senior officials having salaries nearly equal with that of the President.
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If the illegal alien is getting paid cash to undercut the competitor's bid, then how does the corporation account for the expenditures? Where did the money go? \n(10,000$ toilet for remodeling of the employee break room)
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some come from lobbyist, some come from people the congress persons represent, others come from the president and lastly his/ or her aides.
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Right On CINDY_CEE13\n\n You Will Become A Statistic Of The SOCIAL SERVICES And The US TAXPAYERS Will Fund You And Your Baby\n\nAccording to TNRIP, the financial cost of this foreign invasion to U.S. taxpayers is staggering! Here is a break down of the annual costs: \n\nEducation: $22.5 billion \nBi-lingual Education: $3.3 billion \nAFDC: $2.4 billion \nSSI: $2.9 billion \nSocial Security: $24.8 billion \nHousing Assistance: $2.6 billion \nCriminal Justice: $2.6 billion \nJobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion \nOther Programs: $51.4 billion \nFood Stamps: $7 billion \nHealth Care: $1.4 billion                             \n(That Totals $131.7 BILLION Annually Folks)
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Well simply answering these things::\nHome::\na. Monthly/daily budget calculations b. Utility Bills c. Home loans, mutual funds investment for future.\n\nOffice::\na. Staff salaries b. Daily reports c. Bank transactions\n\nSchool::\na. Students Bio data b. Monthly Study tution fees/charges c. Terminal/Annual Tests/Exams Records\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/jcbroogley