Senate Approves Bill Denying Pensions to Congressmen Convicted of Ethics Violations

    The Senate finally got a chance to do something right, and they did!

    The legislation passed by a vote of 87-0! Maybe if we get lucky it will be retro-active to some where around 2000.

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Bill strips ethics-challenged legislators of pensions
POSTED: 8:52 p.m. EST, January 12, 2007 at CNN

Sens. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, and Ken Salazar, D-Colorado, attached the amendment to an ethics reform bill earlier this week.

"The only thing crazier than giving a member of Congress convicted of a crime a federal pension is the fact that we still need a bill to prevent a convict from receiving their pension," Salazar said at the time. "A member of Congress who abuses their position of authority for their personal profit deserves a prison sentence, not a government pension."

   This bill has to pass the House and be signed by President Bush. That's were there may be a problem.

 

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