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Show Jarrioii IjIggiG GGucrnnGG pay Congressman Dan Marriott Mar-riott blasted a proposal by the U.S. Senate to give outgoing out-going Senate Committee staff members severance pay for the first three months of 1981. 'It is incredible to me that the Senate could so obviously go directly against the mandate man-date of the people in the re- cent elections. The people don't want continued extravagance, extra-vagance, they want sacrifice sacri-fice in Washington. The only time in the past that Senate staffers have been granted severance pay was in 1977 when someCommlttees were abolished. This Is an entirely en-tirely different matter.' Everyone who takes a political po-litical job knows the job could be gone in the next election. It's just part of the price you pay to work here. The problem in the Senate is that one party was in power so long that people took jobs assuming they were lifetime meal tickets. Now, they want to be compensated for their error In judgement. How many working men and women who are laid off or fired get three months' severance pay? Why should people on Capitol Hill be treated any differently? |