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By Jason Greb
The average congress person get paid $174,000 per year. The speaker of the House gets $223,500 a year. Majority of the leaders of both the Senate and the House get paid $193,400.
Congressmen and women receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Their retirement is funded through taxes and participant contributions. Members of Congress become eligible to receive a pension at the age of 62.
Every Member of Congress has staff to help her or him in a term of office. To be best in speaking with Congress, you will need to know the ordinarily utilized titles and main elements of key staff. One example of a key staff would be the "Chief of staff or administrative assistant" who reports directly to the Member of Congress and usually has overall responsibility for evaluating the political outcomes of various legislative proposals and constituent requests.
Congress has access to some specific privileges, but they are hardly as extravagant as some have imagined. A Constitutional privilege grants basic immunity from some arrests while Congress is in session, something originally assured in Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution. It states that "“They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses."
Supreme Court ruled that states cannot impose term limits upon their federal Representatives or Senators. As a house of representatives member have unlimited two-year terms. As a member of the Senate you have unlimited six-year terms.