The Nation - News from July 1, 1987
A federal judge upheld a law under which congressmen were given a $12,100 salary boost this year. U.S. District Judge Louis Oberdorfer upheld the constitutionality of the Federal Salary Act, which sets procedures for Congress to disapprove the President’s salary recommendations. The judge also rejected a claim in the lawsuit filed by six Republican members of Congress that Congress had acted within the prescribed 30-day time period to disapprove the $12,100 raise.
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