On the recordJune 7, 2007
taxpayers should know that Members of Congress convicted of a felony still collect their pension checks in jail. Congress took no action to kill pensions for congressional felons in February, no action in March, April or May. Now, Congressman Jefferson was indicted this week; and, if convicted, a nine-term Congressman would get $50,000 payments each year from the U.S. taxpayer. That would be on top of $125,000 payments to Representative Rostenkowski, $86,000 payments to Senator Durenberger, $64,000 payments to Representative Cunningham and $40,000 payments to Representative Traficant. In total, American taxpayers pay over $480,000 each year to Congressmen convicted of a felony. The time for reform has come.
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