Bill Foster actually said...

if any of us ran for reelection with a platform of doubling staff salaries, I don't think we would last very long

We've now spent more in absolute dollars on the missile-defense program than we've spent in absolute dollars on the Apollo program.

I think that is a fundamental necessity in a modern economy, and I think there is an essential job for the Federal Government to provision t...

I think we should at least scale our salaries with, say, the median income in the United States.