Are congressmen paid more for being on committees? No. Each member of Congress, whether a Representative or Senator, gets paid $174,000 per year, with a few exceptions. The majority and minority leaders in the House and Senate, and the president pro tempore of the Senate, receive $193,400. The Speaker of the House gets $223,500. Being on committees doesn't matter. https://www.quora.com/Are-congressmen-paid-more-for-being-on-committees
Whilst a congress person does not legally make additional money for being on a committee, the lobbyists involved with those committees can and do make life a little better for the congress person. A lobbyist is not legally able to pay a congress person for favors but the lobbyist can set up meetings via cocktail parties and other activities whereby a client can “donate” money to campaigns, personal foundations and other interest accounts. Do note that I plainly wrote “legally” because it is indeed very strange how a person can come into office on a shoestring budget and 2 to 4 years later be able to buy a multimillion dollar home. I am not saying that a duly elected official would ever take money from anyone illegally but it is very weird how rich a person can get off of a job that pays a set amount ranging in the lower 6 figures. Oh yes, and let us not forget how a congress person in the right committee can sway multimillion dollar contract bids in favor of their spouses and “friends” which kinda sorta means that someone’s pocket is going to get heavier. But again, I’m not saying that a congress person would ever do that.
I actually see her as being a plant of the system to lure voters since they lost so many voters after rigging the 2016 election. The DNC has thrown so many front puppets out there to see which one will stick and someone like her who is clueless could never get anywhere.
A most hearty welcome to the forum @Nancy Knudson! I’m not a seer so I cannot know if she will “get anywhere” or not but she came into office without the wherewithal to get an apartment in D.C. and now, just a few short months later, she is a millionairess.
The great history and economics professor, AOC has added yet another piece of history to our American society. Yes, at a town hall meeting in the Bronx and in a building appropriately named after Albert Einstein, the queen of the Democratic party has spoken about her version of the 22nd amendment and it's founding. It's all about FDR. Yep. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his 4 terms as president of the U.S. In essence, she said that the limitations set by congress upon the presidency was to keep Roosevelt from running for another term. Here's the 1st thing. Roosevelt was a democrat and it was the democrats in a democrat heavy congress who allowed the 22nd amendment to be passed. The second thing? Roosevelt died whilst in office so unless he was like many democratic voters and came back from the grave, he couldn't possibly have thrown his hat into the ring for another term. And just for fun, here's the third thing. The 22nd amendment wasn't even ratified until 1951. But, all that said, AOC has never said that she was a history professor or even a student for that matter. She has a baccalaureate in economics and a school of hard knocks degree in bartending. Neither one is a substantial reason for her to be in congress but alas, somebody wants her where she is: giving speeches about things she knows nothing about and trying to introduce dreamcatcher legislation through congress concerning another subject she knows nothing about, e.g. the eco-structure of the entire planet starting with the U.S.
Ramoras. It is said that ignorance is bliss and if that does indeed have any truth to it then those who feed from that particular shark seem to be even more blissful. It is an acquired taste and quite unnatural to the human species to enjoy total ignorance but it seems to be gaining popularity among our younger citizens.
Someone once said of Obama, "If you think an insignificant state senator and a U.S. Senator with no accomplishments became President based on merit and on his own, you'd be wrong." I think the same can be said for AOC.
We know that Democrats are allowed to vote after they die (Republicans have even been known to vote Democrat after they die), but I don't think they can be elected to office after they die.
At some point, we have to put the whole thing into some kind of perspective. The number of votes that it took to elect her into office was a measly 16,000. No matter the reasoning as to how the incumbent could lose to such a person as AOC isn’t even a thing any longer, she won. 16000 votes. Now, the average attendance at a New York Yankees baseball game is around 45, 000. In other words, it only took about 1/3 of the number of people who regularly attend a single Yankees baseball game to vote her into office.
Dunno about the presidency, but here’s a few guys that did. https://alltimelists.com/10-times-dead-people-got-elected-to-public-office/
I don't think the democrats are grooming her to be president like they did President Obama. I think she is a thorn in their side and they wish she would just go away. If she isn't careful, they might find a way to make her go away...…………. permanently.