1.   ...the recent brouhaha over a congressional pay raise.

2.   Among his lonely crusades was an effort to block an otherwise automatic congressional pay raise.

3.   And often their congressional pay amounts to more money than they were making back home.

4.   But Gingrich helped engineer a congressional pay raise and protected it from political criticism.

5.   But Kennedy drew the most applause, pointing to a recent congressional pay increase as evidence the Republican Congress would be hypocritical by not debating the minimum wage.

6.   But the galling part about congressional pay increases is the way they are handled.

7.   But some of it was genuine, stemming from the rather unextraordinary belief that congressional pay raises should be neither automatic nor secret.

8.   Clinton responded by vetoing a spending bill containing a congressional pay raise.

9.   His advertisements criticize Price for voting for a congressional pay raise, for bouncing checks in the House bank scandal, and for voting for tax increases.

10.   In a refreshing burst of candor, House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Irving offered a succinct explanation for the recent shenanigans over a congressional pay raise.