Members of Congress would be allowed their first pay raise since 2009 under a stopgap funding bill lawmakers aim to enact by Dec. 20.
Legislation to keep the government running through March 14 includes a provision to allow the automatic pay raise to go into effect. Lawmakers need to pass the measure this week in order to avoid a government shutdown.
Members of Congress are supposed to receive automatic, annual cost-of-living adjustments under a 1989 law. But they’ve consistently inserted provisions into government funding bills to block the raise from going into effect, fearing political blowback from voters.
The years-long ...