Rick Nolan lies about his pay raise votes
Rick Nolan is under pressure for his votes to raise his own pay, while voting against pay raise for our soldiers. And last night, in an interview on WCCO, he attempted to mislead voters, saying that he hasn’t voted to raise his own pay since the ’70s. But the truth is that Nolan voted as recently as this past June to raise the pay of members of Congress.
Nolan is playing a game of semantics in his effort to counter criticism of his voting record. While it’s accurate that the House didn’t vote on a stand-alone pay raise bill, it did vote on a bill that would continue the ongoing pay freeze for members of Congress. And Rick Nolan, as has been the case throughout his career, was on the wrong side, voting against continuing the Congressional pay freeze for FY 2017, and thus voting to raise pay for members of Congress, like himself. But June’s vote was the second time in his second stint in Congress that Nolan voted to raise his own pay, as he also voted against a December 2014 measure to freeze Congress’s pay in 2015.
Rick Nolan has proven in his decade in Washington that he’s the consummate career politician who will say anything to stay in office. But lying to reporters’ faces in a live TV interview is low, even for him.