Congress Still Gets Paid During the Shutdown — Here's How Much

The U.SCongress, as a whole, is making $2.95 every second. That's $177 a minute and more than $250,000 a day. And yes, it's still making that during the government shutdown it caused

When Steve Nowicki learned that congresspeople — the government employees who, after failing to reach a budgetary compromise, triggered the shutdown — would still earn their salaries while more than 800,000 furloughed government workers were sent home without pay, he decided to present the facts in real time to the Internet via CongressStillGetsPaid.com.

Nowicki teamed up with two of his coworkers, Nick Miaritis and Alex Goldstein, to develop CongressStillGetsPaid, a website that calculates exactly how much Congress has been paid since the government shut down at midnight on Oct. 1, Nowicki told Mahsable. (While all three are employed by Saatchi & Saatchi, an advertising agency network, the website is not an official Saatchi project.) Read more...