Allred Leads With Bipartisan Group to Stop Congressional Pay Raise in this Congress

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Colin Allred (TX-32) released the following statement after a bipartisan effort from members of Congress led by Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), convinced House Leadership to delay consideration of the Legislative Branch appropriations bill which included a pay increase for Members of Congress.

"I do not support efforts to raise Congressional pay. Too many hard-working North Texans are struggling to afford health care and there is just too much to be done before we consider this," said Allred. "I am pleased leadership has decided to postpone this measure, and I thank our bipartisan group who worked together on this. Let's get back to doing the job we were elected to do."

At a meeting of the House Rules Committee meeting this week, the Committee removed the Legislative Branch appropriations section of the bill from floor consideration this week because the Member pay increases threatened to sink the entire appropriations package.

In addition to Fitzpatrick, Allred was joined by the following members who cosponsored his amendment to stop Member pay increases: Rep. Jared Golden (ME-02), Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15), Glenn Grothman (WI-06), John Rutherford (FL-04), Elaine Luria (VA-02), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Greg Gianforte (MT-AL), Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16), Andy Kim (NJ-03), Ann Wagner (MO-02), Anthony Brindisi (NY-22), Troy Balderson (OH-12), Abigail Spanberger (VA-07), Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02), Michael Bost (IL-12), Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Phil Roe (TN-01).

Read more about the bipartisan effort in a joint press release here.