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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1639057" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Rep. Alcee Hastings: $174K Salary Not 'Proper Pay' for Congress</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Hastings, who is the second poorest lawmaker in the current Congress, contends that increasing congressional salaries would help keep the ranks diverse so that it doesn't become an "elite institution."</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">You want to know why he's so poor ?</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">He owes around $2M for legal fees to defend himself against corruption charges while he was a federal judge .</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>He served as a Judge on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Florida" target="_blank">United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida</a> from 1979 until his impeachment and removal from that post in 1989. He is one of only eight federal officials in American history to be impeached and removed from office.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1639057, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Rep. Alcee Hastings: $174K Salary Not 'Proper Pay' for Congress[/B] [B] Hastings, who is the second poorest lawmaker in the current Congress, contends that increasing congressional salaries would help keep the ranks diverse so that it doesn't become an "elite institution." [COLOR=#ff0000]You want to know why he's so poor ? He owes around $2M for legal fees to defend himself against corruption charges while he was a federal judge .[/COLOR] He served as a Judge on the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Florida']United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida[/URL] from 1979 until his impeachment and removal from that post in 1989. He is one of only eight federal officials in American history to be impeached and removed from office. [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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