House Agrees to $3,100 Pay Raise for 2006 – Yahoo! News: “The House on Tuesday agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year � to $165,200 � after defeating an effort to roll it back.

‘It’s not a pay raise,’ said House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay, R-Texas. ‘It’s an adjustment so that they’re not losing their purchasing power.'”