(Cross posted from BoydaBloc)
Congresswoman Nancy Boyda did the right thing last year when she voted to prevent Congress's automatic pay increase from going into effect. She went above and beyond to do even more when she co-sponsored the bill that would have prevented it.
At the time she said:
"In my district, the median wage is still going down, so it just doesn’t seem right for Congress to take care of itself," Boyda said. "I guess maybe it depends where you’re coming from . . . . If we get a pay raise, I will donate it to charity."
It went into effect anyway.
In a press release today, Congresswoman Boyda said she thought long and hard about what to do with the money added to her pay that she had worked to prevent, finally deciding to create a $1,500 scholarship for a 2nd District high school senior.
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